31.   The first grows on bamboolike stalks, has leaves with velvety undersides and red with yellow blooms.

32.   The five saplings in the Times Square district have leaves.

33.   The herb garden serves up sage, which has leaves with an interesting pebbled texture, and the purplish seedheads of salad burnet.

34.   The plants do not have true leaves but produce strappy, leaflike stems of varying lengths with scalloped margins.

35.   The tips of many branches all over the trees have brown leaves, something I have never seen before.

36.   The trees have no leaves now, their bare branches scratching at the gray winter sky.

37.   The stems have two leaves opposite each other, and white flowers grow from the axils of the leaves.

38.   They have leaves of absence, job-sharing and part-time arrangements for parents.

39.   Transplanting is best done in the fall, when first-year seedlings have real leaves.

40.   Whether it has leaves or not, it needs water.