. Elementary botany . Fig. 445- Sensitive fern ; normal condition of vegetative leaves and sporophylls. pinnae being quite large. The fertile leaves are shown also in the figure, and at first one would not take them for leaves at all. But if we examine them carefully we see that the general plan of tl^| leaf is the same : the two rows of pinnae which are here much shorter than in the sterile leaf, and the pinnules, or smaller

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