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always falls off, either with or after the leaves 
it fupports. The leaves of robinia, rofe acacia, 
afford a good example of the compound cha- 
racter, and alfo of the two rules that have jufi 
now been mentioned. There are three 
kinds of compound leaves, the compounded, 
decompounded, and fuper - decompounded. 
The firfh has been explained; and, "although 
there be but two divifions from the fame 
common petiole, it is a compound leaf. . The 
terms decompounded, and fuper-decompound- 
ed, are applied to different modifications of 
the compound leaf ; and again thefe modi- 
fications admit of fuch a variety of others, 
which are diftinguimed each by an appro- 
priate term, that nothing but practice, and the 
method recommended in regard to the ftudy 
of fimple leaves, can bring the pupil acquainted 
\$ith them. The feathered, footed, winged, 
paired, are all different forms of the compound 
leaf ; fo is the fingered, of which an example 
may be feen in the horfe-chefnut, sefculus hip- 
pocaftanum, and lupine (lupmus) ; as thefe 
rarious modes frequently enter into, if not 
entirely form, the fpecific character of plants, 
it is neceflary they mould be w T ell underftood. 
But, before the compound leayes arc attempted, 
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