iy OUTLINES OF BOTANY. 
44. The number of leaves or their parts is bexpnnanys adjectively by the 
following numerals, derived from the Latin 
uni-, bi-, tri-, quadri-, quinque-, sex-, septem-, octo-, novem-, decem-, mullti-, 
a ee eB 4-, 5-, 6-, 7-, 8-, 9-, 10-, many- 
sieges = a termination, indicating the particular kind of part referred 
— 
ane vista; bidentate, multidentate, mean one-toothed, two-toothed, 
many- tothe d, ete. 
trifid, m ultifid, mean two-lobed, three-lobed, many-lobed, 
wnifdidiite, “ifoliotae, multifoliolate, mean having one sate, a 
leaflets, many lea ete. 
ee hifoliate, multifoliate, mean haying one leaf, two leaves, 
any | 
iisbnate, and triternate, mean twice or thrice ternately divided 
unijugate, Ge cee multijug gate, ete., pinnae or leaflets, mean that 
they are in one, two, many, etc. pairs (juga 
45. Leaves or their parts, when flat, or any other flat organs in 
plants, - 
when long and narrow, at least four or five times as long as 
broad, falsely compared to a mathematical line, for a linear leaf has always 
a perceptible breadt 
lanceolate, si about three or more times as long as broad, broadest 
se 
below the m : , and tapering towards the summit, comp nared to the 
head of a 1] 
cnet, “when broadest above the middle, and tapering aoe the 
base, = to a wedge with the point downwards; when very broadly 
— oa: aawiied at “the top, it is often called flabelliform or fan- 
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aped. 
spathulate, when — broad part near the top is short, and the narrow 
a part long, compared to a spatula or flat lad 
te, when Coo twice as long as broad, and rather broader below 
the adic compared to the longitudinal section of an egg; obovate is the 
same form, with the broadest part above the midd 
orbicular, oval, oblong, e elliptical, rhomboidal, etc., when compared to 
the corresponding mathematical figures. 
transversely oblong, or eet when conspicuously broader than long. 
faleate, when curved like the blade _ scythe, 
46. oe forms aes any two of gs above are expressed by 
combining two terms. Thus, a linear- lanceolate leaf is long and waeidioih 
yet broader ‘below the middle, se gtoa Sos oint; a linear oblon, 
. The pales or summit of a leaf is 
ae or pointed, when it forms an acute angle or tapers to a poin 
obtuse or blunt, when it forms a very obtuse angle, or more age 
when it is gee or less rounded at the top. 
acuminate or a ipa — suddenly narrowed at the top, and then 
be 
more or less prolonge an acumen or point, which m cute or 
obtuse, linear or ts botanists make a slight ee wi 
the acuminate and cuspidate apex, the acumen being more distinct from 
the rest of the leaf in the latter case than in the a ciaees. but in general 
