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THE EDGE. 



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5. Lobed (lobatus) ; partly divided into a determinate number of segments. 

 We say bilobus, two-lobed, as in the leaf of Bauhinia porrecta ; trilobtis, 

 three-lobed, as in the leaf of Anemone Hepatica ; and so on. 



6. Split (fesus) ; divided nearly to the base, into a determinate number of 

 segments. We say bifidus, split in two ; trifidus, in three ; as in the leaf 

 of Teucrium Chamsepitys ; and so on. When the segments are very 

 numerous, multifidus is used. 



7. Parted (partitus) ; divided into a determinate number of segments, which 

 extend nearly to the base of the part to which they belong. We say 

 Hpartitus, parted in two ; tripartitus, in three ; and so on. 



8. Palmate (palmatus) ; having five lobes, the midribs of which meet in a 

 common point, so that the whole bears some resemblance to a human hand ; 

 as the leaf of Passiflora cserulea. 



9. Pedate (pedatus); the same as palmate, except that the two lateral lobes 

 are themselves divided into smaller segments, the midribs of which do not 

 directly run into the same point as the rest ; as the leaf of Arum 

 Dracunculus, Helleborus niger, &c. 



1 0. Fingered (digitatus) ; the same as palmate, but the segments less spreading, 

 and narrower. 



11. Pinnatifid (pinnatifidus, pinnatipartitus, pinnatiscissus) ; divided almost to 

 the axis into lateral segments, something in the way of the side divisions of 

 a feather ; as Polypodium vulgare. M. De Candolle distinguishes several 

 modifications of pinnatifidus : 1. Pinnatifidus, when the lobes are divided 

 down to half the breadth of the leaf : 2. pirvnatipartit'us, when the lobes 



