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THE FIRST BOOK OF BOTANY. 
Look over the leaves you have gathered, and find 
the blade in each of your specimens ; find the petiole, 
and look for the stipules. Leaves having all the parts 
Fig. 1 
Fig. 2. 
seen in Fig. 1 are said to be complete . When you 
find a leaf without a leaf-stalk, but with the blade 
sitting upon the branch, it is called a sessile leaf. 
(Sessile means sitting.) 
Do not expect to find the parts of leaves shaped 
just like the figures in the book. Stipules are often 
very small—mere thread-like bodies, that you may 
easily overlook. And they are so often absent that 
perhaps you have not a single complete leaf among 
your specimens. You can easily tell which is blade 
and which is leaf-stalk in your leaves, and you will 
know the stipules when you see them. 
Point out and give the name of each of the parts 
