THE LEAF. 
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all the leaves you have in which the veinlets form an 
irregular net-work, as in Fig. 4. These are known as 
net-veined leaves. 
Fig. 4. 
A Net-veined Leaf. 
Fig 5. 
A Parallel-veined Leaf. 
Leaves in which no veinlets are seen, and leaves 
in which the net-work of veinlets is regular, are called 
parallel-veined, and sometimes fork-veined. Fig. 5 
represents a parallel-veined leaf. 
Look at each of your net-veined leaves, and count 
its ribs. If it have only one rib, reaching from the 
leaf-stalk across the blade to its very edge, and giving 
off veins right and left, as the plume spreads away 
from the shaft of a feather, it is called a feather- 
veined leaf, and its one rib is named the midrib. If 
it have several ribs spreading away from the leaf¬ 
stalk, as shown in Fig. 7, it is called a palmate-veined 
leaf. Does Fig. 2 remind you at all of a feather or 
