. Class-book of botany : being outlines of the structure, physiology and classification of plants : with a flora of the United States and Canada. Botany; Botany; Botany. 54 FORM OR FIG0RE. 259. Of the reticulate venation, the student should carefully note three leading forms, the feather-veined, the palmate-veined, and the triple-veined. The feather-veined (pinni-veined)lcaf is that in which the venation consists of a midvein giving off at intervals lateral veinlets and branch- ing veinulcts. Ex. beech, chestnut. 2G0. In the radiate-veined (palmi-veincd) leaf the venation con- sists of several
. Class-book of botany : being outlines of the structure, physiology and classification of plants : with a flora of the United States and Canada. Botany; Botany; Botany. 54 FORM OR FIG0RE. 259. Of the reticulate venation, the student should carefully note three leading forms, the feather-veined, the palmate-veined, and the triple-veined. The feather-veined (pinni-veined)lcaf is that in which the venation consists of a midvein giving off at intervals lateral veinlets and branch- ing veinulcts. Ex. beech, chestnut. 2G0. In the radiate-veined (palmi-veincd) leaf the venation con- sists of several veins of nearly equal size, radiating from the base towards the circumference, each with its own system of veinlets. Ex. maple, crow-foot. 261. The seems to be a form intermediate between the two othere when the lowest pair, of veinlets are conspicuously stronger than the others above them towards the apex, extending with the midvein towards the summit. 262. In parallel-veined venation the veins arc either straight, as in the linear leaf of the grasses, curved, as in the oval leaf of the orchis, or as in the Carina, Calla, &c. FORM OR FIGURE. 114. 110 118 Forms of leaves. 110, Rhododendron maximum. Ill, Alnus plutinosa (cult). 112, Poly- gonum sagittatum. 113, Pawpaw. 114, Irnpatiens fulva. 116, Celtto Americana. 116, Cireaea Lutctiana. 117, Catmint US, Solidago Canadensis—a triple-veined leaf. 263. That infinite variety of beautiful and graceful forms for which the leaf is distinguished becomes intelligible to the student only when viewed in connectiou with its venation. Since it is through the veins alone that nutriment, is conveyed for the development and extension of the parenchyma, it follows that there will be the greatest extension of outline when the veins aro largest and most numerous. Consequently the form of the leaf will depend upon the direction of tho veins and the vigor of their action in developing tho intervening tissue. In ou
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