247 24 249 2 5 251 252 253 254 



FIGS. 247-254. APICES OF LEAVES. 



247, acuminate; 248, acute; 249, obtuse; 250, mucronate; 251, cuspidate; 

 252, truncate ; 253, retuse ; 254, emarginate. 



256 257 



FIGS. 255-260. COMPOUND LEAVES. 



258 



255, oddly pinnately compound ; 256, abruptly pinnately compound ; 257, bipin- 

 nately compound; 258, ternately decompound (the two primary divisions on the 

 right are similar to the completed one on the left) ; 



259 



260 



259, palmately trifoliate ; 260, palmately five foliate ; 261, a phyllodium, the 

 petiole expanded in the form of a leaf; 262, the parts of a leaf: a, the blade; 

 b, the petiole ; c, the stipules ; 



263 264 265 



263, equitant leaves of Iris; 264, i, stipules adherent to the base of the petiole; 



264, 2, stipules clasping the stem and forming an ocrea; 265, leaf-like stipules. 



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