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THE FIRST HOOK OF BOTANY. 
EXERCISE VIII. 
Ho w to tell Compound Leaves • 
The next time you search for leaves, remember 
that some leaves have more than one blade, as shown 
in Fig. 65. When you see a leaf with several blades 
growing from the petiole and its continuation, call it 
a compound leaf, and call each of these blades a leaflet . 
It is sometimes difficult to‘tell a simple from a com¬ 
pound leaf, and this is the reason that I did not call 
attention to them before. You have to learn: first, 
the differences between simple leaves without lobes 
and compound leaves; and second, the differences 
between lobed leaves and compound leaves. 
A simple leaf has only one blade, as in Fig. 64. 
Any leaf with more than one blade is compound . If 
