49 (40) Plants with compound leaves 50 



49 (^0) Plants with simple leaves 54 



(Note: Be careful not to include here as compound, simple leaved plants with 

 deeply cut or filiform divisions; example, Yarrow, Figure 68.) 



50 (A9) Plants with pinnately compound leaves 51 



50 (4.9) Plants with palmately compound, or trifoliate, leaves 52 



51 (50) Leaves with large stipules at 

 nodal attachment to stem, fre- 

 quently a tendril replaces a leaf- 

 let; flowers pealike, purple or 

 rarely white; fruit a pod or le- 

 gume; plants of the dunes and 



beach Lathyrus japonicus, 



Beach Pea 



Figure 53. — Stem, stipules and leaf X %• 



51 (50) Leaves from basal stem 

 or stolon, purplish at 

 base of leaf and flower 

 stems; leaves densely 

 whitish pubescent be- 

 low, dark green above; 

 flowers like a buttercup, 

 yellow; plants of upper 

 slope of tidal marsh. 



Potentilla egedei 



var. groenlandica, Sil- 

 ver Weed 



Figure 54. — Compound leaf X%- 



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