. The American botanist and florist: including lessons in the structure, life, and growth of plants; together with a simple analytical flora, descriptive of the native and cultivated plants growing in the Atlantic division of the American union. Botany; Botany. THE OOMPOUND LEAF. 103 also its peculiar forms of compound leaves, as ternate, quinate, septinate, etc., according to the number of leaflets which arise together from the summit of the petiole. Ternate leaves of this venation are to be cai-efully distinguished from those of the pinnate plan. The palmately ternate leaf consists of three
. The American botanist and florist: including lessons in the structure, life, and growth of plants; together with a simple analytical flora, descriptive of the native and cultivated plants growing in the Atlantic division of the American union. Botany; Botany. THE OOMPOUND LEAF. 103 also its peculiar forms of compound leaves, as ternate, quinate, septinate, etc., according to the number of leaflets which arise together from the summit of the petiole. Ternate leaves of this venation are to be cai-efully distinguished from those of the pinnate plan. The palmately ternate leaf consists of three leaf- lets, which are either all sessile or stalked alike ; the pinnately ternate has the terminal leaflet raised above the other two on the j^rolonged rachis (354, 355).. 366 Y ^ 365 363, Lemon. 361, Jcffersonia. 365, Potentillii anserina. 366, P. trideutata. 307. Apex. In regard to the termination of a leaf or leaflet at its apex, it may be acuminate, ending with a long, tapering point; cicsjndate, abruptly contracted to a sharp, slender point; viucroimte, tipped with a spiny point; acute, simply ending with an angle ; obtuse, rounded at the point. Or the leaf may end a. b e d e f g h k. 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 Wood, Alphonso, 1810-1881. Chicago, A. S. Barnes
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