FORMS OF SIMPLE LEAVES. 



A partite leaf folium 

 partitum, is one deeply 

 divided nearly to the base, 

 as Helleborus viridis : and 

 according to the number of 

 its divisions it is bipartite, 

 tripartite, or multipartite. 



A multipartite leaf 

 folium multipartitum 

 (figure 56). ' (From the 

 Latin, multus, many ; and 

 pars, part much divided.) 

 Having very deep and very distinct divisions. 



Fig. 56. MULTIPARTITE. 



A laciniate leaf folium laciniatum 

 (fig* 57). (From the Latin, lacinia, 

 a lappet; a separate fold of a garment.) 

 Divided by deep incisions ; the lacinise or 

 parts being quite slender and numerous. 



Examples : the Dentaria laciniata, 

 and the Rudbeckia laciniata. Also, 

 the lower leaves of the Clematis flam- 

 mula, sweet virgin's bower. . 



Fig. 57. LACINIATE. 



EXAMPLES OF COMPOUND LEAVES. 



Compound leaves may be referred to two classes or divisions ; 

 one containing digitate, and the other pinnate leaves, accordingly 

 as they are supposed to resemble fingers (digitus) or feathered 

 stems (pinnatus). First, of digitate leaves : 



A conjugate or binate leaf (Jig- 58). 

 (Conjugate, from the Latin, conjugatum, 

 which is formed from con, together, and 

 jugum, a yoke, yoked together. Binate, 

 from the Latin, bis, two, and natus, grown.) 

 When a common petiole bears two leaflets on 

 its summit. 



Fig. 58. CONJUGATE. 



