CLASS I. 
INDIVIDUAL ABSOLUTE TERMS. 
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5. Supradecompouiid {supradecompositus) ; having various de- 
compound divisions or ramifications. In leaves it is applied 
to such as have the primary petiole divided into secondary 
oneSj and the secondary into a third set ; as in the leaf of 
Daucus Carota. 
6. f Bifoliolate {^hifoliolatus^hinatus)\ when in leaves the com- 
mon petiole is terminated by two leaflets growing from the 
same point ; as in Zygophyllum Fabago. This term has the 
same application as unijugus and conjugatus. We say frifo- 
liolate, or ternate^ when the petiole bears three leaflets from 
the same point ; as in Menyanthes trifoliata ; f quadrifoliolate^ 
if there are four from the same point, as in Marsilea quadri- 
folia ; and quinquefoliolate or quinate, if there are five from 
the same point, as in Potentilla reptans ; and so on. 
7. f Vertebrate (f vertebratus) ; when the leaf is contracted at 
intervals, there being an articulation at each contraction ; as 
in Cussonia spicata. Mirb, 
8. Pinnate {jpinnatus) ; when simple leaflets are arranged on 
each side a common petiole ; as in Polypodium vulgare. 
9. Pinnate with an odd one (impari-pinnatus) ; when the petiole 
is terminated by a single leaflet or tendril; as in Pyrus aucu- 
paria. If there is a tendril, as in the pea, it is called 
cirrhose. 
10. Equally pinnate (pari-pinnatus, abrupte pinnatus) ; when the 
petiole is terminated by neither leaflet nor tendril, as Orobus 
tuberosus. 
11. t Alternately pinnate (f alternatim pinnatus) ; when the leaf- 
lets are alternate upon a common petiole; as in Potentilla 
rupestris. Mirb. 
12. Interruptedly pinnate (interrupte pinnatus) ; when the leaflets 
are alternately small and large, as in the potato. 
13. f Decreasingly pinnate (f decrescente pinnatus); when the 
leaflets diminish insensibly in size from the base of the leaf 
to its apex ; as in Vicia Sepium. Mirb, 
14. fDecursively pinnate (f decursive pinnatus) ; when the petiole 
is winged by the elongation of the base of the leaflets ; as in 
Melianthus. Mirb. This is hardly different from pinnatifid. 
15. Digitato-pinnate {digitato-pinnatm) ; when the secondary 
petioles, on the sides of which the leaflets are attached, part 
from the summit of a common petiole. Mirb, 
16. Twin digitato-pinnate (bidigitato-pinnatus, biconjugato-pin- 
natus) ; the secondary petioles, on the sides of which the 
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