122 TERMINATIONS OF LEAVES. 



wind in the other. Probably these actions are in 

 some measure the causes of such configurations. 



Palmatum,f. 65, palmate, cut into several oblong, 

 nearly equal segments, about half way, or rather 

 more, towards the base, leaving an entire space 

 like the palm of the hand, as Passiflora caruka, 

 Cart. Mag. .28. 



Pmnatifidum,f. 66, pinnatifid, cut transversely into 

 several oblong parallel segments, as in Ipomopsis, 

 Exot. Bot. t. 13, 14, Bunias Cakile, Engl. Bot. 

 t. 231, Lepidium didymum, t. 248, pctr&um, 

 t. 1 1 1, and Myriophyllum verticillatum, .218. 



Bipinnatifidum^f. 67, doubly pinnatifid, as Papaver 

 Argemone, t. 643, and ErwcctRa major ^ Evot. 

 Bot. t. 78. 



Pectinatum, f. 68, pectinate, is a pinnatifid leaf, 

 whose segments are remarkably narrow and pa- 

 rallel, like the teeth of a comb, as the lower leaves 

 of Myriophyllum verticillatum, and those of Hot- 



. tonla palustriSy Engl. Bot. t. 364. 



In<equale,f. 69, unequal, sometimes called oblique, 

 when the two halves of the leaf are unequal in 

 dimensions, aad their bases not parallel, as in 

 Eucalyptus resimfera, Exot. Bot. t. 84, and most 

 species of that genus, as well as of Begonia. 



5. The Terminations of Leaves are various. 



Folium truncatum, f. 49, an abrupt leaf, has the 

 extremity cut off, as it were, by a transverse 



