. Elements of botany. Plants. LEAVES. 93 That a compound leaf, in spite of the joints of the separate leaflets, is really only one leaf, is shown : (1) by the absence of buds4n the axils of leaflets ; (2) by the arrangement of the blades of the leaflets horizontally, without any twist in their individual leafstalks ; (3) by the fact that their arrangement. Fig. 76. — Pinnately Compound Leaf of Locust, with Spines for Stipules. on the midrib does not follow any of the systems of leaf arrangement on the stem (§ 122). If each leaflet of a com- pound leaf should itself become compound, the result


. Elements of botany. Plants. LEAVES. 93 That a compound leaf, in spite of the joints of the separate leaflets, is really only one leaf, is shown : (1) by the absence of buds4n the axils of leaflets ; (2) by the arrangement of the blades of the leaflets horizontally, without any twist in their individual leafstalks ; (3) by the fact that their arrangement. Fig. 76. — Pinnately Compound Leaf of Locust, with Spines for Stipules. on the midrib does not follow any of the systems of leaf arrangement on the stem (§ 122). If each leaflet of a com- pound leaf should itself become compound, the result would be to produce a twice comjiound leaf. Fig. 85 shows that of an Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bergen, Joseph Y. (Joseph Young), 1851-1917; Bergen, Joseph Y. (Joseph Young), 1851-1917. Bergen's Botany: key and flora, Pacific coast ed. Boston : Ginn


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