ON8 IN BOTANY. 





35. DEXTATE LEAK. 36. DELTOID LEAP. 37. DECOMPOSITE LEAF. 38. BENIFORH LEAF. 39. PINMATITID LEAF. 40. PALMATE LKAF. 41. 

 D1UITATE LKAF. 42. CAPILLARY LEAF. 43. SPIKT LEAF. 44. SESSILE LJUVES. 45. CILIATE LEAF. 46. SERRATE LEAF. 47. OVAL HAT. 

 48. PIMMATE LBAF. 49. BIPINKATK LEAF. 50. DISTICHOUS LEAVES. 51. ACUTE LEAVES. 



Sagittate Leaf (Pig. 27). A leaf shaped like the head of an 

 arrow, from the Latin tagitta, an arrow, triangular in form, with 

 pointed lobea at the base extending backwards. A variety of 

 this form ia called hastate, or spear-shaped, from the Latin 

 hasta, a spear. 



Spatulate Leaf (Fig. 28). A leaf formed something like a 

 spatula (Latin, spatula), abroad fiat knife used by chemists for 

 spreading plasters. It is broad and rounded at the end, but 

 tapers gradually towards the stalk. 



Vertidllate Leaves (Fig. 29). When more than two leaves 



grow on the same level, they are termed verticillate, from the 

 Latin vertieillus, the whirl of a spindle, derived from verto, to 

 turn. Leaves growing in this manner, in a ring round the 

 stem, are also said t be \chorled. 



Pinnate Leaf, with Tendril* (Fig. 30). Here we hare two 

 opposite leaflets, with a tendril issuing from the point of 

 junction between them. Found in the leaf of the everlast- 

 ing pea. 



Cordate Leaf (Fig. 31). A leaf, such aa the loaf of the lime- 

 tree, so called from being shaped like a heart, from the Latin 



