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LEAVES. 



Ciliate, when the teeth and angles are very acute. (Fig. 69.) 

 Erose, when the edges of the leaf look as though they were 



bit;en or gnawed. (Fig. 70.) 



Palmate, when divided so as to resemble a hand. (Fig. 7l.) 

 Siuuate-lobed, when the depressions are broad at the bottom. 



(Fig. 72.) 



Fig. 72. 



Fig. 71. 



Palmate leaf. 



Fig. 73. 



Sinuate-lobed. 



Pinnatifid leaf. 



Pinnatifid, when the lobes go near to the middle. (Fig. 73.) 

 Ruminate, when the divisions of a pinnatifid leaf are more 

 or less triangular, and pointing downwards. (Fig. 74.) 



Panduriform, when there is a concavity on each side of a 



(Fig. 75.) 



leaf, so as to make the leaf resemble a violin 



Fig. 74. 



'&&u 



Fig. 75. 



Panduriform 

 leaf. 



Runcinate leaf. 



Pan-shaped or Flabellate, as in the Palmetto. (Fig. 76.) 

 Pectinate, comb-shaped. (Fig. 77.) 



02. The extremities of leaves are acute when they terminate 

 m a sharp point. (Fig. 78.) 



Obtuse, when 1 1 1 ♦ ■ extremity ia blunt. (Fig. 79.) 



Ciliate! Erose? Palmate! Sinuate-lobed? Pinnatifid? Kuncinate ! 

 Panduriform.' Kan-shaped' Pectinate *— -92. When is a leal' said to be 

 acute ? When obtuse ? 



