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now PLANTS GROW, 





Jniprrnpfcdhj piunrde, wlion soino of tlio lojiflcts of tlio same loaf are much 

 smaller than the rest, and placed between them, as in the Water Avens. 



Ahrupthj 2>innnto, when there is no odd leaflet 

 at the end, as in Honey-Locust. Fjfj. 130. 



Odd jnnnate, when there is an odd leaflet at 

 the end, as in the Common-Locust (Fig. 128) 

 and in the Asii. 



I'innafe iritli a tnidril, when the footstalk is 

 proloniTpd into a temlril, as in Fi;:^. 129, and all 

 of the Pea trilie. 



14S. IMnnate leaves iiiav have mauv or few 

 leaflets. The Bean has pinnate leaves of only 

 tliree leaflets. 



Piilmato loaf, nf 'i leaflets. 



149. Palmate leaves fjenerally have few 

 leaflets ; there is not room for many on the 

 very end of the footstalk. ( "ouniion Clover 

 has a palmate leaf of three leaflets (Fig. 

 136) ; Virginia Creeper, one of Ave leaflets 

 (Fig. 7 2 \ as well as the Puckeye (Fig. 131); 

 ■while the ] forse-chestnut has .seven, and 

 some Lupines from eleven to seventeen. 



150. Twice or Thrice Compound Leaves are 



not unconnuon, both of the pinnate and of 

 the palmate sorts. While some leaves of 

 Honey Locust are oidy once pinnate, as in ' 

 Fig. 130, others are doubly or ticico pinnaie, 

 as in Fig. 132. Those of many Acacias are 

 Ihrice piimaie. Fig. 133 represents one of 

 the root-leaves of Meadow-Pue, wliich is of 

 the palmate kind, and its general footstalk 

 is divided into threes for four times in suc- 

 ces.sion, making in all eighty-one leaflets ! 

 When a leaf is divided three or four times, 

 it is said to be dorompfmnd. This is ter- 

 nately decompourd, because it divides each 

 time into threes. 



132. A twice-iiinn:ite kaf of Hcmcy-Looust- 



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