ISO COMPOUND LEAVES. 



of leaflets, and are used for that pur- 

 pose where such discrimination is requi- 

 site for specific characters, as in Mimosa . 

 The different degrees in which leaves are 

 compounded are thus distinguished, 

 without any reference to the mode. 



Composition, simply compound, as in the 

 above instances. 



Decomposition*, doubly compound, as 

 Athamanta Libanotis 9 Engl. Bot. £.138. 

 Mgopodium Podagraria, t. 940, and 

 Fumaria claviculata, t. 103. 



Sapradecomppsitum 9 thrice compound, or 

 more, as Caucahs Anthriscus, t. 987, 

 C. daucoides, t. 197? and Bimium 

 fitxuontm^ t. 988. But 



Bigeminatum, twice paired, as Mimosa 

 Unguis cati, Plum. Ic. t. 4; and terge- 

 minatum, thrice paired, as M. terge- 

 mina ; also 



Biternaium, twice ternate, as Mgopodium, 

 Engl. Bot. t. 940 ; triternatiim, thrice 

 ternSte, as Fumaria lutea, t. 588 ; and 



* Linnoeils, in Phil. Bot. 47, gives an erroneous defi- 

 nition of this term, which does not accord with his own 

 use of it. Professor Martyn has rightly defined it, 



