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herbs. These reduced leaves are known as bracts. 

 Sometimes bracts remain green and leaf -like (as 

 in this case), when they differ from leaves only 

 in their greatly reduced size. At other times they 

 are mere dry or membrane-like scales, and are 

 then often called dry or scarious bracts. 



106. The pupil will now be interested in Fig. 

 93, the leaf of the common pea. (Examine, also, 



Fia. 93. 

 Leaf of garden pea. 



the sweet pea.) How many pairs of leaflets has 

 it? At the base are two very large and leafy 

 stipules ; then follows a pair of leaflets and, — 

 what has become of the other leaflets? 



107. The cobea is a climbing plant of gardens 

 and conservatories. Its leaf normally ends in a 

 tendril (Fig. 94). There are three pairs of leaf- 

 lets. Fig. 95 is a leaf which is reduced to a 



