HOW TO KNOW THE WILL) FJ.O\Vi:i:S. 



Connate. 



Arrow-shaped. 



pcrfoliate ; but if two leaves are joined together and 

 the stalk passes through them, as in the teazle, it is 

 termed connate. "When the leaf runs down the stem, 

 ns in the comfrey and thistles, it is decurrent, and m~ 

 Iricated when the leaves overlap each other, like the 

 ling, or the scales of a pine-cone. 



In shape the leaves are termed ovate, heart-shaped, 

 kidney-shaped, arrow-shaped, fiddle-shaped, lyre-shaped, 

 strap-shaped, and sword-shaped. The margin of the 

 leaf may be entire, or crenate when the edge is in 

 small rounded divisions, serrate when edged like a saw, 

 and toothed when in small pointed divisions. 



The FLOWER is, however, the keystone to the arch 

 cf wild flowers. In the previous chapter the indi- 

 vidual peculiarities of the calyx and corolla were just 

 touched upon. The various shapes of the corolla most 

 commonly met with are salver-shaped, as the primrose; 

 funnel-shaped, as the cowslip ; ivheel-shaped, when the 



