Digitatum, digitate or fingered, when several leaflets proceed from the summit of a common foot-stalk, as Potentilla verna, Engl. Bot. t. 37, reptans, t. 862, and Alchemilla alpina, t. 244.
Binatum, binate, is a fingered leaf consisting of only two leaflets, as in Zygophyllum, Curt. Mag. t. 372.
Ternatum, ternate, consists of three leaflets, as Fagonia cretica, t. 241, and the genus Trifolium, Trefoil. See Engl. Bot. t. 190, &c.
Quinatum, quinate, of five leaflets, as Potentilla alba, t. 1384, reptans, t. 862, &c.
Pinnatum, pinnate, when several leaflets proceed laterally from one foot-stalk, and imitate a pinnatifid leaf, p. 158. This is of several kinds.
cum impari, with an odd, or terminal, leaflet, as in Roses, and Elder, also Polemonium cæuleum, Engl. Bot. t. 14, and Hedysarum Onobrychis, t. 96.
cirrosum, with a tendril, when furnished with a tendril in place of the odd leaf-
