Compound Leaves 



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of a hand, the leaf is palmate (fig. 134), palmatifid (fig. 108), 

 palmatipartite and palmatisected (fig. 135). 



When a palmatisected leaf is itself cut up into segments, it 

 is dissected or laciniate (fig. 136). 



Fig. 134. — Palminerved leaf of Geranium 

 pratense (nature printed). 



Fig. 135.— Palmatisect leaf of the 

 Monkshood i^Aconitvin'). 



Fig. 136.— Heteromorphic leaves of the 

 Water Crowfoot {Ranunciihisaguatilis) : 

 the floating leaves trilobed, the sub- 

 merged leaves laciniate. 



Fig. 137.— Pedate leaf of the Christmas 

 Kose {HelleboTJis niger). 



Sometimes the lateral lobes of a palmate leaf are them- 

 selves divided, giving the whole somewhat the appearance of a 

 bird's foot (fig. 137). The leaf is then pedate. 



