THE LEAF 



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114 115 



110-115. Kinds of margin of leaves ; 110, 

 serrate; 111, dentate: 112, cre- 

 nate : 113, repand; 114, sinuate; 

 115, incised. 



Repand, Undulate, or Wavy, when the margin of the leaf forms a 

 wavy line, bending slightly inwards and outwards in succession ; as 

 in Fig. 113. 



Sinuate, when the margin is 

 more strongly sinuous or turned 

 inwards and outwards ; as in 

 Fig. 114. 



Incised, Cut, or Jagged, when 

 the margin is cut into sharp, 

 deep, and irregular teeth or in- 

 cisions; as in Fig. 115. 



Lohed, when deeply cut. 

 Then the pieces are in a gen- 

 eral way called Lobes. The 

 number of the lobes is bi'iefly 

 expressed by the phrases two- 

 lohed, tJiree-lobed, five-lohed, many-lohed, etc., as the case may be. 



When the depth and character of the lobing needs to be more par- 

 ticularly specified, the following terms are employed, viz. : — 



Lohed, in a special sense, when the incisions do not extend deeper 

 than about halfway between the margin and the center of the blade, 



if so far, and are 

 more or less round- 

 ed; as in the 

 leaves of the Post 

 Oak, Fig. 116, and 

 the Hepatica, Fig. 

 120. 



Cleft f when the 

 incisions extend 

 halfway down or 

 more, and especially 

 when they are sharp; 

 as in Figs. 117, 121. 

 And the phrases 

 tico-cleft, or, in the 

 Latin form, hijidj 

 three-cleft or trifd, 

 four-cleft or quadri- 

 fd, fice-cleft or quin- 

 quefid, etc., or many- 

 cleft, in the Latin form, multifid, — express the number of the segments, 

 or portions. 



Parted, when the incisions are still deeper, but yet do not quite 

 reach to the midrib or the base of the blade ; as in Figs. 118, 122. And 



116-123. Margins of deeply cut leaves : 116, pinnately 

 lobed; 117, pinnately cleft; 118, pinnately 

 parted; 119, pinnately divided; 120, pal- 

 mately three-lobed : 121, palmately three- 

 cleft; 122, palmately three-parted; 123, 

 palmately three-divided, or trisected. 



