574 INEQUILATERAL LEAVES. 
ranked with the upper lobe fullest, no matter whether they are 
nearly sessile or on petioles a foot in length. The witch hazel has 
Fig. 102. two ranked leaves with 
a broad base on short 
petioles and the lower 
lobe much the fuller. 
common beech, 
hazel, mulberry, and 
grape have two ranked, 
equal lobed leaves. 
It is a very common 
thing to see a want of 
symmetry in the lobes 
Alternate two ranked | f Hamamelis Firginies, of leaflets of compound 
oS leaves. The reader 
will remember that De Candolle says, ‘ The upper edge of such 
is always smallest.” 
Of this character, we find the black ash, the hop-tree (Ptelea), 
bean, hickory, elder, blad- Fig. 103. 
der-nut (Staphylea), straw- 
berry, poison ivy, fragrant 
. 
sumach, and Jack in the 
ultimate divisions of the 
decompound leaves of Her- 
cules club are fullest on Two leaflets of Fraxinus sambucifolia, Black Ash, 
the ] ower si d e, while th e fullest on the outer lobes. 
leaves of the Kentucky coffee-tree reverse the above example. The 
leaflets of Ailanthus are broad at the base, and raised on very short 
Two leaflets of Ailanthus glandulosus, fullest on the inner side. 
pedicels. The upper edge of their leaflets is much the fuller: 
Leaflets of the Southern prickly ash are fuller on the upper side, 
