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Fig. 344. Fig. 345. 



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Fig. 344. Quinate or quinquefoliate leaf. Fig. 345. Septenate leaf of 



the Horse-chestnut i^sculus Hippocastanum). 



are more than seven {fig. 346), as in many of the Lupin tribe. 

 The term digitate is sometimes employed to characterise a com- 

 pound leaf of five leaflets, but this name should be confined to 

 a simple leaf, and used in the sense already noticed. In speak- 

 ing of palmately veined compound leaves in a general sense, 

 they are usually termed palmate or digitate. 



These leaves may become still more di\aded. Thus if the 

 common petiole divides at its apex into three partial ones, each 

 of which bears three leaflets {fig. 347), as in the ISIasterwort 



Fig. 346. 



Fig, 347. 



Fig. 346. Multifoliate leaf of a Lupin Fig. 347. A biternate leaf. 



(Tmperatoria Ostruthium), it is biternate ; or when the common 

 petiole divides at its apex into three secondary ones and each 

 of these again divides into three others, each of which bears 

 three leaflets, as in the Yellow Fumitory {Corydalis lutea), and 



