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five {fig. 341), as in Potentilla argentea and alha ; it is septenate 

 or septemfoliate, if there are seven {fig. 342), as in the Horse- 

 chestnut and some Potentillas; it is multifoliate if there are 



Fig. 341. 



Fig. 342. 



Fig. 341. Quinate or quinquefoliate leaf. Fig. 342. Septenate leaf of 



the Horse-chestnut (^sculus Mppocastanwn). 



more than seven {fig. 343), as in many of the Lupin tribe. The 

 term digitate is sometimes employed to characterise a compound 

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

 leaf, and used in the sense already noticed. In speaking of pal- 

 mately-veined compound leaves in a general sense, they are com- 

 monly, although improperly, termed palmate or digitate. 



Compound palmately-veined leaves may become still more 

 divided. Thus if the common petiole divides at its apex into 



Fig. 343. 



Fig. 344. 



Fig. 343. Multifoliate leaf of a Lupin. Fig. 344. A biternate leaf. 



three partial ones, each of which bears three leaflets {fig. 344), 

 as in the Masterwort {Imperatoria Ostruthium), the leaf is 



