ASCENDING PART. HERBAGE. 1 1 



pointed, obtuse with a point, spinous-pointed, or 

 cirrhose as in Gloriosa; abrupt, jagged-pointed, 

 retuse, or emarginate. 



43. With respect to division (36), Simple Leaves are 

 either cloven, lobed, sinuated, deeply divided, la- 

 ciniated, or cut; palmate, pinnatifid, pectinate, 

 unequal (as in Begonia), lyrate, runcinate, fiddle- 

 shaped, hastate, arrow-shaped. 



44. Compound Leaves are either jointed, fingered, 

 binate, (or conjugate,) ternate, quinate, pinnate 

 with or without an odd leaflet, whorled, or au- 

 ricled ; they are simply, doubly, thrice, or more, 

 compound ; pedate, twice paired, twice ternate, 

 or doubly pinnate, &c. 



45. In duration, Leaves are either deciduous or ever- 

 green ; the former lasting but one summer; the 

 latter two or more, though a fresh crop is pro- 

 duced every year, so that the tree or shrub is 

 never stripped. 



46. Some Leaves or Leaflets are continuous, never 

 separable from the stem or footstalk, as in Ruscus, 

 the natural order of Musci (Mosses), and the 

 genus Jungermannia. 



47 . Fulcra, Appendages, belong to the herbage of 

 a plant, and are of 7 kinds. 



l. Stipula, the Stipula, a leafy appendage to the 

 proper Leaves (30), or their Footstalks (23) ; 

 usually in pairs, at the base of the latter, either 

 united thereto, or distinct ; sometimes simple 



