32 ENGLISH WILD FLOWERS. 



cinquefoil ; and so on. If the leaflets spring out from 

 the same point, the leaf is digitate, as in the cinque- 

 foil ; if they are in pairs along the leaf-stalk, as in the 

 rose, it is pinnate, or feathered. If the leaflets are 

 again subdivided, as in the parsley, carrot, or fennelj 

 it is then doubly or trebly pinnate. 



A leaf is entire when there are no divisions, loled 



Pinnatifid. Loled. Bunciate. 



when there are deep and rounded divisions, as in the 

 oak. If the loles are so deep as to extend more than 

 half-way to the mid-rib, it is palmate, as the palm of 

 the hand. "When so sharply cut as to resemble a 

 pinnate leaf, it is pinnatifid. If the points of the 

 divisions run back, as in the dandelion, it is runciate. 

 A peltate leaf has the stalk attached at or near the 

 centre, as in the pennywort and garden nasturtium. 

 When the stalk passes through the leaf, it is termed 



