LEAVES. 



With sound like ocean's roaring, wild and deep, 

 And in yon gloomy pines strange music makes" 



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Burns in describing such a scene, says ; " this is my best sea- 

 son for devotion : my mind is wrapt up in a kind of enthusiasm 

 to Him who, in the pompous language of the Hebrew bard, 

 * walks on the wings of the wind.' " 



Pinnatifid, may be seen at Fig. 33, d ; leaves of this form 

 are sometimes finely divided, like the teeth of a comb; they are 

 then said to be pectinate. 



Lyrate, differs from pinnatifid in having its terminating seg- 

 ment broader and more circular. (See Fig. 33, c.) 



Fig. 34. 



Palmate, or hand shaped (Fig. 84, a) ; one species of the pa&- 

 sion flower (Passiflora ccendia) affords a good example of this 

 kind of leaf. The oblong segments like fingers, arise from a 

 space near the petiole, which may be considered as resembling 

 the palm of the hand. 



Digitate, or fingered leaf (Fig. 34, b), differs from the pal- 

 mate leaf in having no space resembling the palm of a hand; 

 but several distinct leafets arise immediately from the petiole, 

 as may be seen in the Horse Chesnut. 



Connate (Fig. 34, c) : the bases of opposite leaves are united 

 so as to appear one entire leaf. 



Pinnatifid Lyrate Palmate Digitate Connate. 



