COMPOUND LEAVES. 135 



one leaflet, or pair of leaflets, grows out of the 

 summit of another, with a sort of joint, as in 

 Fagara tragodes, Jacq. Amer. /. 14. 



JDigitatum^f. 2^2, digitate or fingered, when several 

 leaflets proceed from the summit of a common 

 footstalk, as Potentilla Terna, Engl. Bot. t. S7, 

 reptanSj t. 862, and Alchemilla alp'uia, t. 244. 



Bi)2atum, f. 105, binate, is a fingered leaf consist- 

 ing of only two leaflets, as in Zygophyllum^ Curt. 

 Mag. t. 372. 



Ternatum,J\ lOG, ternate, consists of three leaflets, 

 as Fagonia cretica, t. 24 1 , and the genus TrifG- 

 Hum, Trefoil. See Engl. Bot. t. IpO, &c. 



Quinatum^ quinate, of five leaflets, as Potentilla 

 alba, t. 1384, reptans, t. 862, &c. 



Pinnatum, pinnate, when several leaflets proceed 

 laterally from one footstalk, and imitate apinna- 

 tifid leaf, p. 122. This is of several kinds. 



cum impari^f. 1 16, with an odd, or terminal, leaflet, 

 as in Roses, and Elder, also Polcmonium cceru- 

 leum, Engl. Bot, t. 14, and Hechisaruni Onohrij- 

 chis, t. 96. 



clrrosum, f. 115, with a tendril, when furnished 

 with a tendril in place of the odd leaflet, as the 

 Pea and Vetch tribe; P hum mark imum, t. 1046, 

 Lathyrus palustris, t. 169, Vicia satrca, t. 334. 



ahrupte, f. 101, abruptly, without either a terminal 

 leaflet or a tendril, as Cassia Chamcecrista, Curt. 

 Mag. t. 107, and the genus Mimosa. See M. pu- 



