136 COMPOUND LEAVES. 



dica, the Common Sensitive-plant. This form 

 of leaf is much more uncommon tlian the impari- 

 pinnatum, and we have no perfect example of it 

 among British plants. The nearest approach to 

 it is the genus Oi^pbtis, whose leaves have only 

 the rudiments of a tendril. A truly wonderful 

 variety of the Orobus sylvaticus, Engl. BoL 

 i". 518, with large simple leaves, has been found 

 in Wales. 



opposite^ oppositely, when the leaflets are opposite, 

 or in pairs, as Saint-foin, t, 96*, Roses, Shim an- 

 gustifoUum, t. 1 39, &c. 



alternathn^ alternately, when they are alternate, as 

 Vicia dumetorum (Cracca sylvatica) Riv. Pent, 

 Iri\ t.5\, and occasionally in our F". saliva, lit- 

 tea, &c. 



hit er nipt e,f, 107, intermptedly, when the principal 

 leaflets are ranged alternately with an interme- 

 diate series of smaller ones, as Spircea Filipen' 

 dula, Engl. Bot. t. 284, S. Ulmaria, t. 960, and 

 Potent ilia anserina^ t. 861. 



articulaih, jointedly, with apparent joints in the 

 common footstalk, as Weinmannia pinnata. 



decursivby decurrently, when the leaflets are decur- 

 rent, as Eryngium campestre, Engl. Bot. t. 57, 

 and Potentilla fruticosa^ ^.88. 



lyrato.f. 108, in a lyrate manner, having the ter- 

 minal leaflet largest, and the restgradually smaller 

 as they approach the base, like Erysimum pr a; ca^. 



