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Having deep and sharp notches, as a leaf or a petal.

Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one covers the base of the leaf next above it, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Frullania. See Succubous.

A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything; as, the indentations of a leaf, of the coast, etc.

(Cannabis Indica), from which hasheesh is obtained. -- Indian mallow (Bot.), the velvet leaf (Abutilon Avicennæ). See Abutilon. -- Indian meal, ground corn or maize. [U.S.] -- Indian millet (Bot.), a tall annual grass (Sorghum vulgare), having many varieties, among which are broom corn, Guinea corn, durra, and the C…

Unarmed; destitute of prickles or thorns, as a leaf. Gray.

To insert a leaf or leaves in; to bind with blank leaves inserted between the others; as, to interleave a book.

rregular; -- said of any arrangement whose symmetry is destroyed by local causes, as when leaflets are interposed among the leaves in a pinnate leaf.

reaks or interruptions; discontinuously. Interruptedly pinnate (Bot.), pinnate with small leaflets intermixed with large ones. Gray.

Situated below the point where a leaf joins the stem.

Growing immediately above, or in front of, a leaf; as, intrafoliaceous stipules.

berries. It is exceedingly poisonous to the touch for most persons. -- To pipe in an ivy leaf, to console one's self as best one can. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- West Indian ivy, a climbing plant of the genus Marcgravia.

pretty, white, solitary blossom, and deeply two-cleft leaves (Jeffersonia diphylla); twinleaf.

A genus (Ephedra) of leafless shrubs, with the stems conspicuously jointed; -- called also shrubby horsetail. There are about thirty species, of which two or three are found from Texas to California.

A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers.

A pair of the opposite leaflets of a pinnate plant.

Keel-shaped; having a longitudinal prominence on the back; as, a keeled leaf.

Having the form or shape of a kidney; reniform; as, a kidney- shaped leaf. Gray.

arrow, slender portion of the edge of a monophyllous calyx, or of any irregularly incised leaf.

Furrowed or pitted; having shallow cavities or lacunæ; as, a lacunose leaf.