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NATURAI, HISTORY. 
ncred, fliaped like a kidpey, a heart, a 
moon, an arrow, or a pike, divided into two 
or three parts, formed like a hand, pointed 
like a wing, jagged, indented (as the tube- 
rofe,) divided or not into parts, Hngly or 
double fawed, notched, grifly, ciliated or 
hairy like an eye-lid, lacerated, or feeniingly 
torn or bitten, curled, or entire. 
Their Jurface is diftinguiflied by being 
either downy, foft as velvet ; hairy, as the 
fox-glove ; hinging ; rough ; fmooth, as 
the daify ; briftly, prickly, warted, polilh- 
ed, plaited, waved, wrinkled ; veined, as 
the gilliflower or carnation ; nervofe ; plain, 
as the auricula flower ; deprelfed, comprefT- 
ed, convex, concave, or channelled. 
'Iheir fununit, cr iop^ is either truncated, 
blunt, as if bitten, hollow, obtufe, pointed 
(as the amaranthus,) lhaped like an awl, or 
taper like a pillar. 
7 heir JubJlar\ce is either hollow’, flefliy, 
or membranous (as pinks.) 
Compound leayes are either fimple or de- 
compound. 
A compound leaf is formed of feveral 
fmall leaves growing from onefootftalk, and 
is confulered as one w'hole, produced from 
a Angle compoAtion, as the ranunculus, 
rofe. carnation, pink, &c. They are either 
fingered, compofed of two, three, or many 
leaves, refembling wings expanding from 
their common fo'otflalk, and having alternate 
leaves, or being doubly winged. 
A decom- 
