34 ^^^ IntroduSiion to 



A radicle leaf [radicalc) is one which rifes 

 from the root, and is not faftened to the ftalk, 

 b y thofe leaves which are faftened to the ftalk 

 are called [caulmum) r, c, c, thofe which fit 

 on the branches {ramofiim) dy d, thofe which 

 are under the ramifications or wings of the 

 ftalk, (fubulare) e^ e, and the floral leaf (fio- 

 rale) is always fituated near the flower. 



III. The infertion is the manner in which 

 a leaf is faftened to the plant, fee fig. 18. 



A buckler or ftiield-flmped leaf [peltafum) 

 is one whofe footftalk is faftened to its diflc, 

 and not to the bafe or border a^ as the Wat£r 



Lily> 



When the leaf has a footftalk at its bafe by 

 which it is faftened to the plant as at b^ it is 

 called petiolattim. 



If it is faftened to the branch without a foot- 

 ftalk as at r, (fijfde) fitting clofe. 



V/hen the bafe of the leaf \% faftened by a 

 membrane running along the ftalk as at d^ 

 decurrenSy as in the White or Woolly Thijlle. 

 When the bafe of the leaf extends foas to em- 

 brace the ftalk quite round, as at e^ amplexi- 

 caide, as the Honeywort^ 



But when the lobes of the bafe are too 

 iliort for to wholly embrace *the ftalk, it i§ 

 izxi^i^A Jemiampkxicaule^ half embracing. 



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