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system of mutual typical affinities or correlations, to be discussed 
in detail in a subsequent paper. 
INEQUILATERAL Leaves.—By Proressor W. J. BEAL. 
Tue leaves of most plants, such as those of the white oak, sugar 
maple, and tulip tree are equilateral, i. e., the right and left sides 
are of the same size and match each other, as the two sides of the 
Fig. 100 
Compound leaf. After Spencer. 
nose and chin, or the right hand and foot match the left. Some 
simple leaves and many leaflets of compound leaves show a marked 
denomination of an “ endopleura”,—and an “albumen” besides, which contains the 
embryo. 
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found lying loose inside. 
Th ontended fruit tof the well-known yew-tree contains a) an RRR 
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mange to de yaksa capsule, which is it tself covered b va thick, calycine layer !—in the 
xact liken f an acorn, a hazelnat, or the ner a sweet gale (Myrica; the sia 
pa or nia nets which indeed seems to reproduce the true (epigynows) structure o 
the former on a reduced ced scale; as the (Composite) Polymnia Uvedalia or “ nutted ie 
cup.” 
The cup of the yew-tree tams remain to be property, interpreted asa foshy eup 
partiy of dry scales, lik acorn and the one, and the succu- 
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