COMPOUND LEAVES. 149 



Engl. Bot. t. 518, with large simple leaves, has been 

 found in Wales. 



opposit), oppositely, when the leaflets are opposite, or in 

 pairs, as Saint-foin, t. 96, Roses, Slum angustifolmm^ . 

 t. 139, &c. 



alternatim, alternately, when they are alternate, as Vicia 

 dumetorum fCracca sylvaticaj Riv. Pent, Irr. t. 51, 

 and occasionally in our ^. Sativa lutea^ &c. 



interrupted/. 107, interruptedly, when the principal leaf- 

 lets are ranged alternately with an intermediate series 

 of smaller ones, as Spircea Filipendula, Engl. Bot. t. 

 284, S. Ulmaria, t. 960, and Potentilla anserina, f, 

 861. (81) 



articulate, jointedly, with apparent joints in the common 

 footstalk, as JVeinmannia pinnata, 



decursive^ decurrcntly, when the leaflets are decurrent, 

 as Eryngium compestre, Engl. Bot. t, 57 y and Paten- 

 tillajruticosa, t. 88. 



lyrato^f. 108, in a lyrate manner, having the terminal 

 leaflet largest, and the rest gradually smaller, as they 

 approach the base, as Erysimum pnecox, t. 1129, 

 and, with intermediate smaller leaflets, Geum rivale, 

 (82) t. 106 ; also the Common Turnip. Such 

 leaves are usually denominated lyrate in common with 

 those properly so called (whose shape is simple, and 

 not formed of separate leaflets) ; nor is this from inac- 

 curacy in botanical writers. The reason is, that 

 these two kinds of leaves, however distinct in theory, 

 are of all leaves most liable to run into each other, 

 even on the same plant, examples of which are fre- 

 quent in the class Tetr adynamia. 



'81) [Native] (82) [Native.]. 



