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THE FIRST BOOK OF BOTANY. 
forming a correct idea of the shape that goes with 
any of these names. 
In studying lobed leaves you will find a good 
many very singular forms, concerning which it would 
be hard to answer the questions in the schedule. 
Some of these forms are here pictured. When you 
find in your collection lobed leaves that are very 
peculiar, compare them with these pictures and defini¬ 
tions. 
A Run'cinate leaf is a lobed feather-veined leaf, 
in which the lobes point backward toward the base. 
Fig. 59. 
Fig. 59. Fig. 60. Fig. 61. 
Bipinnat'ifid leaves are formed when a deeply- 
lobed feather-veined leaf has its lobes again lobed, as 
in Fig. 60. 
A Pei/ate leaf is a lobed palmate-veined leaf, in 
which the lobes at the base are lobed again, and give 
the leaf a look like the foot of a bird, Fig. 63. 
Laciniate.— Leaves are so named when they look 
