i52 OOMPOUND LEAVES. 



nate, which is impossible. Neither are the leaves of 

 Mimosa pudica digitato-pinnata, for there is no medium 

 between the two terms ; but they are digitate, or com- 

 posed of leaflets proceeding from the top of a common 

 foot-stalk, and those leaflets are pinnate. On the other 

 hand ovato-lanceolatum^ lanceolate approaching to ovate, 

 or elliptico-lanceolatumy approaching to elliptic, as in 

 the Privet, Engl. Bot. t. 764, already mentioned, whose 

 leaves often assume that shape, are easily understood. 



