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Watts, May Theilgaard

Botanical Terms Used in Describing Leaves, page 3

3.19465
India ink on 4-ply cream board.
Printed text.
Digitized
Original
37 cm W x 54.6 cm H (Item)
29.1 cm W x 46 cm H (Platemark or image size)
1 sheet
Drawing
July 1944
Sheet 3 of 4. Glossary of botanical terms and illustrations used for describing leaves, created to accompany "Botanical Terms Used in Describing Leaves" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Glossary of terms in 2 sections describe leaf tips and leaf bases in a column on the left. Illustrations depict various over-lapping leaf silhouettes with additional small sketches of objects to explain each shape in a column on the right. Descriptive text adhered to the board includes details of leaf tips and bases.

Section 1: A LEAF TIP IS CALLED:

Leaf tips depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
  • ACUMINATE
    • Silhouette of acuminate shaped leaf tip with sketch of long pointed witches hat
  • ACUTE
    • Silhouette of acute shaped leaf tip with sketch of clown hat angled less than 90 degrees
  • MUCRONATE
    • Silhouette of mucronate shaped leaf tip with sketch of beret with small tip at the center
  • CUSPIDATE
    • Silhouette of cuspidate shaped leaf tip with sketch of a hat with a sharply pointed tip
  • OBTUSE
    • Silhouette of obtuse shaped leaf tip with sketch of a pope's hat
  • ROUNDED
    • Silhouette of rounded shaped leaf tip with sketch of a baseball cap
  • TRUNCATE
    • Silhouette of truncate shaped leaf tip with sketch of a top hat
  • EMARGINATE
    • Silhouette of rounded shaped leaf tip with sketch of a queen's crown
Section 2: A LEAF BASE IS CALLED:

Leaf bases depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
  • TRUNCATE
    • Silhouette of truncate shaped leaf base with sketch of a skirt cut straight across
  • CORDATE
    • Silhouette of cordate shaped leaf base with sketch of a men's Elizabethan breeches
  • OBLIQUE
    • Silhouette of oblique shaped leaf base with sketch of a golf pants of unequal length
  • AURICULATE
    • Silhouette of auriculate shaped leaf base with sketch of a pants gathered at ankles with droopy ear lobe-like shape
  • ROUNDED
    • Silhouette of rounded shaped leaf base with sketch of an apron over a skirt
  • ACUTE
    • Silhouette of acute shaped leaf base with sketch of tapered riding pants
  • ACUMINATE
    • Silhouette of acuminate shaped leaf base with sketch of a pirate with a peg leg
Morton Arboretum Bulletin Of Popular Information, Vol. 19, no. 7, p. 27.
Leaves--Anatomy
Drawings -- United States -- 20th century
Pen works -- United States -- 20th century
Botanical Terms Used in Describing Leaves, page 4
Botanical Terms Used in Describing Leaves, page 1
Botanical Terms Used in Describing Leaves, page 2
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