“‘Which are serrate, except at the base.’”
“These are serrate; and let me see, yes, ‘except at the base.’ Not a saw tooth there.”
“‘Smooth on both sides, green, shining, marked with one rib and many transverse veins.’”
“‘Smooth on both sides, green, shining, marked with one rib and many transverse veins’—the exact description. Do look at them.”
“‘And supported alternately upon short foot-stalks.’”
“‘Supported alternately upon short foot-stalks’—so they are.”
“‘They are two or three inches long and from half an inch to an inch in breadth.’”
“These are little more than half the size. But then the book is describing the cultivated plant, and this is the wild one.”
“‘The flowers are either solitary or supported two or three together at the axils of the leaves.’”
“What a pity we have not seen the flower!”