42 THE FIRST BOOK OF BOTANY. 



very puzzling leaf, to which the schedule does not 

 seem to apply, you may compare it with the follow- 

 ing pictures. Perhaps it will be like one of these, 

 and if so, if you cannot describe it, you can at least 

 learn what to call it. If it is not like any of these 

 pictures, it will be best to postpone its study for the 

 present. By-and-by you will know better how to 

 manage it. 



FIG. 78. 



FIG. 79. 



FIG. 80. 



Euncinate. 



Bipinnatifid. 



Pedate. 



A KTJN'CINATE leaf is a lobed feather-veined leaf, 

 in which the lobes point backward toward the base. 

 Fig. 78. 



BIPINNAT'IFID leaves are formed when a deeply- 

 lobed feather-veined leaf has its lobes again lobed, as 

 in Fig. 79. 



A PED'ATE leaf is a lobed palmate- veined leaf, in 

 which the lobes at the base are lobed again, and give 

 the leaf a look like the foot of a bird. Fig. 80. 



CURLED leaves (Fig. 81) are formed by a spread- 

 ing of the border of the blade. 



