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questions for each of your specimens. Describe the 
leaves, as is done for Fig. 130, and then give a stem- 
description by answering the six questions of the 
stem-schedule, as you see has been done here. 
Schedule Ninth, describing Fig. 136. 
Farts ? 
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Attitude ? 
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Leaves. —Opposite, simple, petiolate, exstipulate, 
feather-veined, irregularly dentate, ovate-acuminate, 
green, smooth. 
Stem. —Round, slightly bending, reddish brown, 
smooth, slender, solid, woody. 
EXERCISE XXVI. 
Varieties of Inflorescence . 
Head.— A more or less globular cluster of flow¬ 
ers, sessile upon the receptacle, Fig. 137. 
Spike.— A cluster of flowers, sessile upon a ra- 
chis, Fig. 138. 
Spa'dix.— A spike with a thick rachis, and cov¬ 
ered around by a single large leaf, or bract, called a 
spathe , Fig. 139. 
Ament, or Catkin.— A spike , with sessile bracts 
among its flowers. It grows on trees and shrubs, 
and falls off after a while, Fig. 140. 
The Raceme is a flower-cluster, where the flowers 
