NATURAL HISTORY. 
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A decompound /(?/ 7 /has a foptftalk divid- 
ing twice or more times before it is garnifli- 
ed with leaves. 
Determinate leaves are dillingfliflied by 
their dire£tioii» place, infertion, or fitua- 
lion. 
The dir cftioji is the manner in which the 
leaf expands from. the. bottom to the top, 
and is either arched, upright, fprcadiiig, ho- 
rizontal, reclining, or revolving backwards. 
The place is determined by the part of 
the plant where-it is faftened, and is either 
called the feed leaf from rifmg iin mediately 
from the feed,, or radical from rifing.firn: 
from the root. 
The infertion is the manner in which a leaf 
is faltened to plant, and is eithtr fahened to 
the difk, or has a footlfalk to its bale, grow’s 
frcni the branch without a foatllalk, ia'dalv 
tened by a membrane, or lurrounds the Ifaik: 
without any part of the border adhering to 
it, like the hare’s- ear. 
‘The (ttuulion is confidered from the pofi- 
tion of each in relation to the others. 1 he 
lituation is, therefore, either jointed, fur- 
rouiuling the (talks like liars, oppoled to 
each other (as tlie jeltamine,) growing in 
an alternate pofition on each fide their foot- 
llalk, or without any order, clullered (as 
ti-.e flow'ers of the fweet William,) ranged 
like the tiles of a houfe, or the fcales of a 
lifli. 
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