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pointed, obtuse with a point, spinous-pointcd, or 

 cirrhose as in Gloriosa; abrupt, jagged-pointed, re- 

 tuse, or emarginate. 



43. With respect to division (36), Simple Leaves are 

 either cloven, lobed, sinuated, deeply divided, laci- 

 niated, or cut ; palmate, pinnatifid, pectinate, un- 

 equal (as in Begonia), lyrate, runcinate, fiddle- 

 shaped, hastate, arrow-shaped. 



44. Compound Leaves are either jointed, fingered, 

 binate, (or conjugate,) ternate, quinate, pinnate with 

 or without an odd leaflet, whorled, or auricled ; 

 they are simply, doubly, thrice, or more, compound ; 

 pedate, twice paired, twice ternate, or doubly pin- 

 nate, &c. 



45. In duration, Leaves are either deciduous or ever- 

 green; the former lasting but one summer; the 

 latter two or more, though a fresh crop is pro- 

 duced every year, so that the tree or shrub is never 

 stripped. 



46. Some Leaves or Leaflets are continuous, never se- 

 parable from the stem or footstalk, as in Ruscus, 

 the natural order of Musci (Mosses), and the genus 

 Jungcrmannia. 



47. Fulcra, Appendages, belong to the herbage of a 

 plant, and are of 7 kinds. 



i. Stipula, the Stipula, a leafy appendage to the 

 proper Leaves (30), or their Footstalks (23) ; 

 usually in pairs, at the base of the latter, either 

 united thereto, or distinct; sometimes simple and 



