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the number of their lobes they may be eafily 

 defined. 



A palmated*leaf [palmatum) is in form of 

 a hand opened ; it is divided into feveral parts 

 from the top to the middle, or almoft to the 

 bafe, as Hemp^ fee fig. 22. 



A wing-pointed leaf [finnatifiduni) is* one 

 ;ivhich is cut into feveral lateral finufes, feparat- 

 cd their whole length like the feathers of a 

 wing, as in HartJJ:or?t Flantain^ &c. fee 

 fig. 23. 



A jagged leaf {laciniaturn) is one that is 

 cut into many finufes, to the midrib, and the 

 lobes are alfo cut undeterminately on their 

 borders, as in fome of the Centaiirea, fee 

 fig, 24. 



A finuated leaf (Jinuatiini) is one that is cut 

 on the borders into finufes the whole length, 

 which are feparated by lobes which are but 

 {lightly intended, as the Acanthus^ fee fig. 25. 



An indented finuated \^z.i (finuato-dentatum) 

 is the fame with the former, but the lateral 

 lobes are narrower, as Cicory^ fee fig. 26. 



A quinquepartite leaf [quinquepartitu?n) is 

 one that is divided into five parts to the bafe> 

 as ih^ Black Hellebore, fee fig. 28. 



In changing the number of parts into 

 which the leaf is divided, we may denote their 



b 3 fignifica-* 



