COMPOUND LEAVES. 



95 



pairs of leaflets in each pinna; the whole leaf having 1560 leaflets — ■ 



26 X 60 — when fully developed. 

 The leaf of our common wild 

 Sensitive Plants (Schranlcia, Aoa- 



Flfl. 128. — Guaiacmn o^iGmale. 



Fia. 129. — Agrimony {Ag- 

 rimonia Jjhvpatoriu). 



cia, etc.), though not larger than a baby's hand, has from 1000 to 

 1500 leaflets. 



200. Palmate Leaves — called also digitate (L. digitus, 

 finger) — are so dif- 

 ferent from pinnate 

 leaves that they are 

 readily distinguish- 

 able, except in the 

 trifoliolate (ternate) 

 forms. But in these 

 there is a distinction 

 carefully to be noted : 

 The ternate leaf of 

 the pinnate form has 

 the rachis length- 

 ened, extending its 

 end - leaflet beyond 

 the two other leaf- 

 lets, as in the Dew- 



. ^ /TT,. ^f^l^ Fig. 130.— Nile Mimosa (JMimosa MIoiicn). 



berry {hig. 131); 



the palmate form has its leaflets stalked alike, or sessile, 



