6-8 LEAVES. COMPOUND. 



Partite, when they are very deep, fig. 4. 

 Laciniated, when the leaf is irregularly cut, fig. 5. 

 Palmate, hand-shaped, fig. 6. 

 Pinnatifid, figw 7. 



Oblique, when the two halves are unequal, as in 

 the Elm, fig. 8. 



A compound leaf consists of many leaflets 

 attached to a common petiole, or leaf stalk. 



It is either 



Binate, of two leaflets, fig. 1, pi. 30. 



Ternate, of three, fig. 2. 



Digitate, of five, fig. 3. 



Pedate, foot-shaped, fig. 4. 



Pinnated, winged, with a terminal leaflet, fig. 5. 



Abruptly pinnated, fig. 6. 



Alternately pinnated, fig. 5. 



Oppositely pinnated, fig. 6. 



Pinnated in a lyrate manner, fig. 7. 



Pinnated interruptedly, fig. 8. 



Pinnated decursively, fig. 9. 



Biternate, fig. 10. Here the common leaf-stalk 



is divided into three parts, each of which has 



three leaflets. 

 Triternate, fig. 11. 



