176 COMPOUND LEAVES. 



Digitatum y digitate or fingered, when se- 

 veral leaflets proceed from the summit 

 of a common foot-stalk, as Potent ilia 

 verna, Engl. Bot. t. 37, reptans, t. 8ft2, 

 and Alchemilla alpina, t. 244. 



Binatwn, binate, is a fingered leaf con- 

 sisting of only two leaflets, as in Zygo- 

 phyllum, Curt. Mag. t. 372. 



Ternatum, ternate, consists of three leaf- 

 lets, as Fagonia cretica, t. 241, and 

 the genus Trifolium, Trefoil. See Engl. 

 Bot. t. 190, &c. 



Quinatum y quinate, of five leaflets, as 

 Potent ilia alba, t. 1384, reptuns, 

 t. 862, &c. 



Binnatum, pinnate, when several leaflets 

 proceed laterally from one foot-stalk, 

 and imitate a pinna tifid leaf, p. 158. 

 This is of several kinds. 



cum imparl, with an odd, or terminal, 

 leaflet, as in Roses, and Elder, also 

 Polemonium cceruleum, Engl. Bot. 1. 14, 

 and Hedysarum Onobrychm, t. 9$. 



cirrosum, with a tendril, when furnished 

 with a tendril in place of the odd leaf- 



