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3. F U L C R A— The SUPPORT, 
Js that part which fuftains or defends cer- 
tain parts of a plant, and is divided into the 
following ten kinds ; the leaf fupporting the 
flowers, the tendril or clafper (as the honey- 
fuckle and fweet-pea,) the fpine, the thorn, 
the footftalk of the leaf, the footflalk of the 
flower or fruit (as the columbine,) the ge- 
neral ftalk, the gland, and the fcale. ^ Each 
of thefe have their fubdivifions, which w-e 
omit, as being too minute for the attention 
of young ftudents. 
4. F O L I A— L EAVES, 
A R E divided into three clafles, of 
fingle, compound, and determinate. 
Single leaves are thofe that have footflalks 
fupporting only one, as the cyclamen ; and 
are defcribed according to their circumfer- 
ence ; border, furface, fummit, and fub- 
ftance. 
Their circumference and border are either 
round, nearly round, oval, reverfed oval, 
oblong, fliaped like a wedge, angular, fpear- 
fliaped (as the belvidere,) narrow, fliaped 
like an awl, triangular, deltoide, or having 
four corners, quinqueangular or five-cor- 
nered, 
