. Science-gossip . hadnarrow lanceolate leaves (fig. 8). As to size, the leaves of many plants differgreatly, according to the position they occupy onstem ; those nearest the root, being largest andmost divided, are the first to appear in spring, as iswell seen in many poplars and the leaf of Quercus rohuv was 85 inches long, and 3 25 62 SCIENCE-GOSSIP. inches across the broadest lobes ; and another ofSalix alba measured 89 inches long (exclusive ofthe petiole which was 7 inch), and i5 inchesbroad. In damp, shady woods I have often foundthe trifoliate leaves of Oxalis acetose
. Science-gossip . hadnarrow lanceolate leaves (fig. 8). As to size, the leaves of many plants differgreatly, according to the position they occupy onstem ; those nearest the root, being largest andmost divided, are the first to appear in spring, as iswell seen in many poplars and the leaf of Quercus rohuv was 85 inches long, and 3 25 62 SCIENCE-GOSSIP. inches across the broadest lobes ; and another ofSalix alba measured 89 inches long (exclusive ofthe petiole which was 7 inch), and i5 inchesbroad. In damp, shady woods I have often foundthe trifoliate leaves of Oxalis acetosella to measure27 inches across. Fig. i represents a large leaf ofCratagus oxyacantha; it is 4 inches long, including brown maculae, with either of these colours alone orspotless. The leaves of Orchis maculata and 0. mascula arevariable in the number and size of the spots, andare often spotless as well as the flowers, which arethen white, in specimens growing in very shadypine-woods. The median spot of the leaves of.
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