138 COMPOUND LEAVES. 



latifoUus, t. 1 108. Bijugum, trijugtim, quadri- 

 jugum, midtijugiim, &c. express particular num- 

 bers of pairs of leatiets, and are used for that 

 purpose where such discrimination is requisite for 

 specific characters, as in Alimosce. 



The different des^rees in which leaves are com- 

 pounded are thus distinguished, without any re- 

 ference to the mode. 



Compositum, f. Ill, simply compound, as in the 

 above instances. 



T)ecompositiim,f. 1 1!2*, doubly compound, as Atha- 

 manta Libanotis, Engl. Boi. t. 138, JEgopodiiim 

 Podagraria, t. 940, and Fumcuia daviculatay 

 t. 103. 



Supradecornpositum, f. 113, thrice compound, or 

 more, as Caucalis Anthriscus, t. 987, C dau- 

 coidcs^ t.\91, and Bunlum jiexuosum, /. 988. 

 But 



Blgeminatum, twice paired, as MimosaZhigids cati. 

 Plum. Ic. t. 4 ; and tergeminatum, thrice paired, 

 as M. tergemina ; also 



Bitematum^f. 112, twice ternate, as JEgopodlum, 

 Engl. Bot. t. 940 ; triternaturn, thrice ternate, 

 as Fidniaria liitea, /. 588; cind 



Blpbinatum, doubly pinnate, Lripinnatum, triply 

 pinnate, of which examples have just been given : 



* Linna:iis, \\\ Phil. Bot. 47^ gives an erroneous definition of this 

 term, which does not accord with his own use of it. Professor Mai- 

 tATi has rightly defined it. 



