His huge palmate horns, knotted and irregularbut massivespoke of age.

It was February, and the hoofed animals were already beginning to shed their hornsespecially the older bulls, whose palmate growths drop first.

This time Kazan was caught fairly on the broad palmate leaf of the bull's antler, and he was flung back again, half stunned.

He is much larger than the fallow-deer, and his age is indicated by his horns, which are round instead of being palmated, like those of the fallow-deer.

The differences between these are not very profound, but they seem on the whole to represent two types: the barren-ground, small of size, with long, slender antlers but little palmated; and the woodland, larger, with shorter and more massive antlers, usually with broad palms.

According to Mr. Fink-Nottle, he supplied Miss Bassett with very full and complete information not only with respect to the common newt, but also the crested and palmated varieties.

" "Palmated newts, sir.

" "Palmated or syncopated, it doesn't matter which.

Provide the pupils with a number of green leaves, illustrating simple and compound, pinnate and palmate, sessile and petioled leaves.

There they may be seen bending over fields tapestried with Passion-Flowers and verdurous with Myrtles and Orange-trees, and presenting their long shafts to the tendrils of the Trumpet Honeysuckle and the palmate foliage of the Climbing Fern.

Like fronds of tree-fern, like great corals or sea-fans, these great palmated plates of bone lift themselves from his head, grand, useless, clumsy.

In spring, small-sized plants bloom here, such as the Anemone, with its blue and white blossoms, the Palmated Violet, the Ranunculus, which are the first ornaments of the prairies in spring; then follow the Esculent Sea-Onion, Pentaloplius longiflorus, Lithospermum hirtum, Cynthia Virginica, and Baptisia leucophaea.

Sterile pinnæ palmate; rachis twining.

After Rancho Chiquito, the first town which is reached in the plain of Comayagua, entering it from this direction, is Lamani,a small village, it is true, but delightfully situated in an open meadow, relieved only by fruit-trees and the stems of the nopal or palmated cactus, which here grows to a gigantic size, frequently reaching the height of twenty or thirty feet.

That is called palmate veining because it's like the palm of your hand.

The A. Negundo Variegata has silvery variegated leaves, which contrast effectively with dark foliage, Campestre Colchicum Rubrum, with its bright crimson palmate leaves, is very ornamental, as is also Negundo Californicum Aurem, with its golden-yellow foliage.

Yet even there we may trace such analogies,as between the Palmate or Aquatic Birds, for instance, and the Birds of Prey, or between the Frigate Bird and the Kites.

On passing the large island, I shot an animal resembling a water-rat, of large dimensions, particularly expanded across the loins, with stout hind legs and palmated feet, of a light slate colour and soft fine hair approaching fur, the colour gradually becoming lighter under the abdomen; the head was flatter than that of the usual tribe of water-rats, and resembled an otter.

FUCUS, PALMATED.

246 Rheum Rhaponticum Rhapontic Rhubarb c.m. 247 - undulatum Waved-leaved ditto c.m. 248 - palmatum Palmated-leaved ditto c.m. 249 - tataricum Tartarian ditto c.m. 250 - hybridum Bastard ditto c.m. 251 - compactum Compact ditto c.m

325 Delphinium intermedium Palmate-leaved Bee Larkspur c.m. 326 hybridum Bastard ditto l. 327 elatum Common ditto c.m. 328 exaltatum American ditto c.m. 329 grandiflorum Large-flowered ditto c.m. 330 Aconitum Lycoctonum