THE ISTEM. 
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EXERCISE XIX. 
Shapes of Stems. 
The following are by no means all the shapes, nor 
are they the precise shapes, that stems assume, but 
Fig. 109. 
Rounded. 
Fig. 112. 
Fig. 115. 
Fig. 110. 
Compressed. 
Fig. 113. 
Acute-angled. 
Fig. 116. 
Fig. 111. 
Half-rounded. 
Fig. 114. 
their forms will most commonly be found to approach 
very nearly to some of these outlines. 
