384 NATURAL HISTORY. 
A DECOMPOUND LEAF 
has a footftalk d viding twice or more times before i¢ 
is garnifhed with leaves. ht soy ae ieee 
Determinate leaves are diftinguifhed by their di- 
reétion, piace, infertion, or fituation. . 
THE DIRECTION 
js the manner in which the leaf expands from the bot- 
tom to the top, and is either arched, u right, {pread- 
ing, horizontal, reclining, or revolving backwards. 
THE PLACE 
3s determined by the part of the plant where it is faft- 
ened, and is either called the feed leaf from rifing — 
immediately from the feed, or radical from rifing 
Brit from the’ nOote.. 0 <6 TRU a <3 
THE INSERTION | 
js the manner in which a leaf is faftened to a plant, _ 
“and is either faftened to the difk, or has a footftalk to 
its bafe, grows fromthe branch without a footftalk, — 
is faftened by a membrane, or furrounds the ftalk, ~ 
without any part of the border adhering to it, like © 
thehare’s ear. Ft SiS “7 
jie THE SITUATION 
4s confidered from the pofition of each in relation to _ 
the others. The fituation is, therefore, either joint- 
ed, furrounding the ftalks like ftars, oppofed to each 
other (as the jeffamine) growing in analternate pofi- _ 
tion on each fide their footftalk. or without any order, ~ 
cluftered (as the flowers of the fweet William) ranged _ 
dike the tiles of a houfe, or the fcales of a fith. ae 
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