136 COMPOUND LEAVES. 



\ 

 dica, the Common Sensitive-plant. This form 



of leaf is much more uncommon than the impari- 

 pmnatum, and we have no perfect example of it 

 among British plants. The nearest approach to 

 it is the genus Orobits, whose leaves have only 

 the rudiments of a tendril. A truly wonderful 

 variety of the Orobus sylvaticus, Engl. Bot. 

 t. 518, with large simple leaves, has been found 

 in Wales. 



opposite, oppositely, when the leaflets are opposite, 

 or in pairs, as Saint-foin, t. 96, Roses, Slum an- 

 gustifolium, t. 139, &c. 



alternation, alternately, when they are alternate, as 

 Vida dumetorum (Cracca sylvatica) Riv. Pent. 

 Irr.t.5\, and occasionally in our V.sativa, lu- 

 tea, &c. 



interrupt^,/. 107, interruptedly, when the principal 

 leaflets are ranged alternately with an interme- 

 diate series of smaller ones, as Spir&a Filipen- 

 dula, Engl. Bot. t. 284, S. Ulmaria, t. 960, and 

 Potent ilia anserma, t. 861. 



articulate, jointedly, with apparent joints in the 

 common footstalk, as Weinmannia plnnata. 



decursive, decurrently, when the leaflets are decur- 

 rent, as Eryng'wm campestre, Engl. Bot. t. 57, 

 and Potentillafruticosa, t. 88. 



lyrato,f. 108, in a lyrate manner, having the ter- 

 minal leaflet largest, and the rest gradually smaller 

 as they approach the base, like Erysimiimpr<ecov, 



