COMPOUND LEAVES. 135 



one leaflet, or pair of leaflets, grows out of the 

 summit of another, with a sort of joint, as in 

 Fagara tragodes, Jacq. Amer. .14. 



Digitatum,/. 22, digitate or fingered, when several 

 leaflets proceed from the summit of a common 

 footstalk, as Potentilla verna, Engl. Bot. t. 37, 

 reptans, t. 862, and Alchemilla alpina, t. 244. 



Binatum, f. \ 05, binate, is a fingered leaf consist- 

 ing of only two leaflets, as in ZygopJtyltubi, Curt. 

 Mag. t. 372. 



Ternatum,J\ 106, ternate, consists of three leaflets, 

 as Fagonia cretica, t. 24 1 , and the genus Trifo- 

 lium, Trefoil. See Engl. Bot. t. 190, &c. 



Qmnatum, quinate, of five leaflets, as Potentilla 

 alba, t. 1384, reptans, t. 862, &c. 



Pinnatum, pinnate, when several leaflets proceed 

 laterally from one footstalk, and imitate apinna- 

 tifid leaf, p. 122. This is of several kinds. 



cum impari,f. \ 16, with an odd, or terminal, leaflet, 

 as in Roses, and Elder, also Pokmonium cceru- 

 kum, Engl. Bot. t. 14, and Hedysarnm Onobry- 

 chis, t. 96. 



cirrosum, j. I J5, with a tendril, when furnished 

 with a tendril in place of the odd leaflet, as the 

 Pea and Vetch tribe; Pisummaritimum, t. 1046, 

 Lathy rus pa lust r is, t. 169, Vicia sativa, .334. 



abniptc, f. 101, abruptly, without either a terminal 

 leaflet or a tendril, as Cassia Chamacrlsta y Curt. 

 Mag. t. 107, and the genus Mimosa. See M. pit- 



