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3. 
THE PEA 
Return to the stem end of the pea. 
a. Count the small leaves. 
b. Notice the little veins in them. 
Hold the pea pod so that the ridge is up, the straight 
line down. Lift and turn back the two little 
leaves on top at the stem end and find something 
that looks like a piece of tessue paper with a very 
Jine fringe on it. 
Examine the ‘noses”’ of all the pods and try to find 
one with a little dry horn on the end of it. This 
looks like a scrap of paper. If it has fallen off, 
find the scar on the tip of the nose where it was 
fastened on. 
Hold the pod up to the ight. Do you see any dark 
bodies inside? How many? What shape are they? 
Are they in the middle of the pod ? 
On which edge are they, the straight edge or the 
curved edge? 
Notice also a network of green veins ; from which edge 
do the larger ones start ? 
Hold all the pods up to the light; is there any differ- 
ence in the size of the dark bodies ? 
Hold a pod with the straight edge down; stick a pin 
