12 IDENTIFYING WILD FLOWERS. 



broad, tapering from near the base towards the pointed 

 apex. 



Linear leaves are long and narrow, the length being at 

 least four or five times the breadth. 



Lobed or cleft leaves are deeply indented or divided, 

 but so that the incisions do not reach the midrib or petiole. 



Lobed or sinuate leaves have deep cuts in their mar- 

 gin, so as to make several more or less separate pieces 

 or segments. 



Lyrate leaves are pinnatifid or lobed leaves with the 

 end lobe the largest. 



An Obcordate leaf is inversely heart-shaped and has 

 its broadest end farthest from the stem. 



Oblong leaves have a similar breadth throughout, except 

 near the base and the apex. 



Obovate leaves are scarcely twice as long as broad, and 

 rather broader towards the apex. 



Obtuse leaves have their apex forming a very obtuse 

 angle, and so have a blunt or rounded end. 



Orbicular leaves are those having a nearly circular out- 

 line. 



Oval or elliptical leaves are about half as broad as long^ 

 and widest in the middle. 



Ovate leaves are scarcely twice as long as broad, and 

 rather broader towards the base. 



Palmate leaves are those which have about five lobes, 

 the midribs of which meet at one point at the base of the 

 blade. 



Peltate leaves are generally roundish, and have the stalk- 

 fixed near the centre of a complete, undivided disc. 



A Perjoliate leaf surrounds the stem so that the stem 

 passes through the blade. 



Pinnatifid leaves are simple leaves, with the segments 

 or lobes arranged like the leaflets in a pinnate leaf ; the 

 segments, however, are not cut to the midrib, and so can- 

 not be removed without tearing the leaf-blade structure. 

 Bipinnatifid leaves are simple pinnatifid leaves, the 

 divisions of which are also pinnatifid. 



Renijorm leaves are broader than long, broadly cordate 



