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ternate

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Size and appearance of n. 1; leaves only twice ternate; flowers white, fewer; achenes 5–10, flat, somewhat crescent-shaped, tapering into the slender stipe.—Mountains of Va. and southward.

Leaves.—All radical; twice to thrice ternately compound.

Biternate, twice ternate; i. e. principal divisions three, each bearing three leaflets, 59.

So far as I can judge from these circumstances, I p. 87suppose that it is a species of Smilax, with ternate leaves. 

It broadens and divides atop into three or four lobes, and these, in turn, broaden and divide into minor lobes, double or ternate, and usually rounded at their terminations.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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