LECT. IX.] GENERAL FIGURE OF LEAVES. 485 







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latum), when the circumference has considerable 

 projections, which are not lobular: and the leaf 

 is termed three-angled (triangulatum), r., four- 

 angled (quadrangulatum) , and five-angled (quin- 

 quangulatum), s., as the angles are either three, 

 or four, or five. If the angles be obscure, the leaf is 

 said to be repand (repandum). It is trowel-shaped 

 (deltoides*), t., when it has three angles, or 



* " Deltoides, rhombeum est ex quatuor angulis, e quibus 

 " laterales minus a basi distant quam reliqui." Phil. Bot. Sir 

 J. E. Smith states that " a wrong figure is quoted for this in 

 " Philosophia Botanica, which has caused much confusion." 

 Introduc. p. 155. He might have added, that the whole de- 

 scription is erroneous. 



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