COMPOUND LEAVES. 



EXERCISE XIY. 

 Simple and Compound Leaves. 



FIG. 88. 



FIG. 89. 



Simple Leaf. 



Compound Leaf. 



SIMPLE LEAVES have only one blade. 



COMPOUND LEAVES consist of several distinct 

 blades, called leaflets. You may know leaflets from 

 lobes by their being entirely separate from each other. 



UP to this time I suppose that pupils have de- 

 scribed leaflets as leaves ; but they must now be care- 

 ful not to make this mistake. Let them confine 

 themselves to simple leaves in using schedule eight, 

 and write simple leaf upon it, to show that they 

 have considered the matter. 



It is sometimes a very nice point to decide be- 

 tween a deeply-lobed leaf and a compound leaf. If 



