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He will be sure to jump at any conclusions which he thinks ought to be correct. The leaf-scars are semicircular, small and swollen. The bud-rings are plain. The twigs make a very small growth in a season, so that the leaf-scars and rings make them exceedingly rough. The flower-cluster scars are small circles, with a dot in the centre, in the leaf-axils. The flowers come before the leaves.
Flowers on the ends of the young, ripened branches, clustered in the upper leaf-axils, each flower 2 in. across, and composed of a regular circle of rosy-red petals, with a cluster of whitish stamens in the centre. They remain on the plant several weeks. Native of New Grenada. Probably P. grandiflora is the same as this, or a slightly different form of it.
Those leaves which have the blade in one piece are called simple; those with the blade in separate pieces are compound. We have already answered the question, What constitutes a single leaf? Let the pupils repeat the experiment of cutting off the top of a seedling Pea, if it is not already clear in their minds, and find buds in the leaf-axils of other plants.
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