with more than one bud-scale 30, in =ROSACEAE=, p. 54.

133a. With stipules or with stipular scars indicating where stipules
have been detached --134.

133b. Without stipules or stipular scars --138.

134a. With three bundle-scars in each leaf-scar --135.

134b. With one bundle-scar in each leaf-scar --136.

135a. Willows; usually with slender leaves and twigs and frequently with
large conspicuous stipules; lateral buds covered by a single
external bud-scale 13, in =SALICACEAE=, p. 20.

135b. Juneberries; with oblong or ovate leaves and small stipules which
fall early; lateral buds with more than one external scale
42b, in =ROSACEAE=, p. 55.

136a. Leaves mostly entire, only a few here and there with low
teeth 1a, in =AQUIFOLIACEAE=, p. 69.

136b. Leaves sharply toothed --137.

137a. Axillary buds superposed, i. e., with a second one just above the
first 1b, in =AQUIFOLIACEAE=, p. 69.

137b. Axillary buds not superposed 2b, in =RHAMNACEAE=, p. 71.

138a. Leaves with purple petioles, which are at least one-fourth as
long as the blade 1a, in =AQUIFOLIACEAE=, p. 69.

138b. Leaves short-petioled or sessile --139.

139a. Stems erect and straight, unbranched or with very few branches
27, in =ROSACEAE=, p. 53.

139b. Stems more or less crooked and freely branched, making a spreading
shrub 25, in =ERICACEAE=, p. 86.

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140a. Flowers appearing in autumn, after the leaves have fallen
=HAMAMELIDACEAE=, p. 51.

140b. Flowers appearing in spring, before the leaves have opened
--141.

141a. Flowers in catkins, without brightly colored or petal-like parts
--142.

141b. Flowers not in catkins, either with or without brightly colored or
petal-like parts --149.

142a. Leaves 2-ranked, as shown by the arrangement of buds and
leaf-scars in two longitudinal rows, so that the third bud is
directly over the first --143.

142b. Leaves and leaf-scars not 2-ranked --146.

143a. Bundle-scars three in each leaf-scar --144.

143b. Bundle-scars several i