104 ELEMENTS OF BOTANY 
leaves. These differ in their nature and mode of crigin 
from the portions of the blade of a divided leaf. One 
result of this difference appears in the fact that some time 
before the whole leaf is ready to fall in autumn, the leaflets 
of a compound leaf are seen to be jointed at their attach- 
ments. In lig. 67 the horse-chestnut leaf is shown at the 
time of falling, with some of the leaflets already disjointed. 
That a compound leaf, in spite of the joints of the sepa- 
rate leaflets, is really only one leaf is shown: (1) by the 
absence of buds in the axils of leaflets (see Fig. 68); (2) by 
the horizontal arrangement of the blades of the leaflets, 
without any twist in their individual leaf-stalks; (3) by 
the fact that their arrangement on the midrib does not 
follow any of the systems of leaf arrangement on the stem 
(Sect. 124). If each leaflet of a compound leaf should 
itself become compound, the result would be to produce a 
twice compound leaf. Fig. TT shows that of an acacia. 
122. Review Summary of Leaves. 
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