A companion to Blackie's tropical readers, books I and II - containing suggestions for experiemnts and practical work (1911) (14769494041)

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Title: A companion to Blackie's tropical readers, books I and II : containing suggestions for experiemnts and practical work
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Wortley, E. J
Subjects: Nature study -- Juvenile literature Natural history -- Tropics Natural history -- Jamaica
Publisher: Glasgow Bombay : Blackie
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden



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imple leaves that are divided or lobed, e.g.bread-fruit, castor oil. (c) Twelve compound pinnate leaves, e.g. logwood,tamarind, Barbados pride, poinciana. (d) Six compound digitate leaves, e.g. silk-cotton (Ceiba),choya (Cleome). Expt. 34. Leaf Stalks.—Examine the stalks of leaves,and collect four belonging to each of the under-mentionedclasses:— (a) Petiolate leaves, e.g. mango, custard apple. (b) Sessile (without stalks), e.g. wandering Jew, to-bacco, French cotton, monkey fiddle. (c) Stipulate, e.g. rose, gungo, rattle-bush. (d) Sheathing, e.g. sugar cane, Indian shot, guineagrass. Expt. 35. Shapes of Leaves (fig. 17).—Collect simpleleaves or leaflets that are the following shapes:— (a) Linear, e.g. guinea grass, crocus. (b) Oval, e.g. guava, pimento. (c) Egg-shaped (ovate), e.g. dumb cane, four oclock,arrowroot, clammy cherry (scarlet). (d) Egg-shaped upside down (obovate), e.g. cashew, lignum-vitre (leaflet). (e) Elliptical, e.g. grape fruit, star apple, aralia (leaflet).
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Fig. 17.—Simple Leaves illustrating variety in Shapes and Edges 1, Line-like; 2, lance-shaped; 3, elliptic; 4, egg-shaped; 5, egg-shape re-versed; 6, heart-shaped; 7, kidney-shaped; S, heart-shape reversed; 9, wedge-shaped; 10, with winged stalk; 11, arrow shaped; 12, halbert-shaped; 13,awl-shaped; 14, needle-shaped; 15, 16, 17, leaves with deeply divided edges. 40 COMPANION TO TROPICAL READERS (/) Heart-shaped (cordate), e.g. mahoe, corallila (white),edcloe, bleeding heart (caladium), anatta. (g) Spoon-shaped (spathidate), e.g. forget-me-not. (h) Lance-shaped (lanceolate), e.g. mango, bamboo, dag-ger plant, roseapple. (i) Draw one example each of the eight differentclasses mentioned above, and at the side of each drawthe object after which it has been named. For example,draw the heart-shaped leaf of the anatta, and next to itdraw a heart.