122 TERMINATIONS OF LEAVES. 



wind in tlie other. Probably these actions are in 

 some measure the causes of such configurations. 



Palmatum^f. 65, palmate, cut into several oblonc:, 

 nearly equal segments, about half way, or rather 

 more, towards the base, leaving an entire space 

 like the palm of the hand, as Passiflora ccerultay 

 Cart. Mag, 2f. 28. 



Pmiatifidum^f, 66 , pinnatifid^ cut transversely into 

 several oblong parallel segir>ents, as in Ipomopsis, 

 E.vot, Bot, t. 13, 14, Bunias Cakile, E?igL Bot, 

 t. 231, Lepidium didymuni^ t, 248, petrcEum, 

 t, 1 1 1, and Myriophyllum verticillatum, ^.218. 



Bipinnatijidum,/. 67, doubly pinnatifid, as Papaver 

 Argemone, t, 643, and Eriocalia 7Jiajor, Edvt, 

 Bot, t, 78. 



Pectmatum, f. 68, pectinate, is a pinnatifid leaf, 

 whose segments are remarkably narrow and pa- 

 rallel, like the teeth of a comb, as the lower leaves 

 of Mijrlophyllum verticillatum, and those of Hot- 

 toiiia palustris, Engl. Bot. t. 364. 

 Incequale,f\ 69, unequal, sometimes called oblique, 

 when the two halves of the leaf are unequal in 

 dimensions, aad their bases not parallel, as in 

 Eucalyptus resinifera, E.vot. Bot. t. 84, and most 

 species of that genus, as well as of Begonia. 



5, The Terminations of Leaves are various. 



Folium truncatum, f, 49, an abrupt leaf, has the 

 extremity cut off, as it were, by a transverse 



