Botanical Terms Used in Describing Leaves, page 1
3.19463
India ink on 4-ply cream board.
Printed text.
Printed text.
Digitized
Original
36.8 cm W x 54.6 cm H (Item)
29 cm W x 46 cm H (Platemark or image size)
29 cm W x 46 cm H (Platemark or image size)
1 sheet
Drawing
July 1944
Sheet 1 of 4. Glossary of botanical terms and illustrations depicting labeled leaf silhouettes used for describing leaves, created to accompany "Botanical Terms Used in Describing Leaves" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Descriptive text includes an introductory paragraph and details of leaf shapes. The remaining identifying text originally adhered to the board has detached and is no longer present.
Header: LEAVES ARE CALLED
Leaf terms depicted from top to bottom, left to right
Header: LEAVES ARE CALLED
Leaf terms depicted from top to bottom, left to right
- SIMPLE
- COMPOUND
- pinnately-compound
- palmately-compound, (or digitate)
- ternately-compound, (or trifoliate)
- doubly-compound (or bi-pinnate)
- PERFOLIATE
- RADICAL
- SESSILE
- ALTERNATE
- OPPOSITE
- WHORLED
Morton Arboretum Bulletin Of Popular Information, Vol. 19, no. 7, p. 25.
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