THE FIRST BOOK OF BOTANY. 
EXERCISE XVIL 
Radical Leaves e 
In Fig. 101 the leaves seem to grow from the 
root, and so are called radical leaves. But they really 
Fig. 99. 
Stem Leaves. 
Fig. 100. 
grow from very short stems, like the one shown in 
Fig. 100. Here yon see that the nodes are crowded 
