Branching pinnate

Brief description Small colonies spread in one plane branching pinnate branches occasionally subdivided to the third order. The colony is cream white, tinged with violet toward the base. In growth form, P. hummelincki... 

Features Stem erect, three to four feet, striated, smooth, freely branched. Leaves thrice pinnate, awl-shaped leaflets. Flowers (July and August) golden yellow, in broad, terminal umbels. Fruit oblong, cylindrical, slightly curved, half-inch long by one-tenth inch broad. Taste and smell, sweetish and aromatic. 

Features Stem two feet high, thick, smooth, branched leaves, pinnate or lobed. Flowers (May) large, red, single, terminal. Transverse section of root is starchy, medullary rays tinged purple. Taste sweet, becoming bitter. 

Features Stem erect, freely branched, three or four feet high, covered with small, straight, slender prickles. Leaves stalked, pinnate, with two pairs of ovate leaflets and larger terminal leaflet, rounded base, doubly serrate, pale green above, grey-white down beneath, about three inches long by two inches broad. Small white, pendulous flowers (May or June) in simple clusters. Astringent to the taste. 

Reticulate or Netted Veins characterize the Dicotyledons, as the Poplar or Oak. The primary veins in these are generally pinnate while the secondary ones and their branches are arranged in netted fashion. 

Brief description This species is <1 m tall. Its side branches may be pinnate (paired on opposite sides of the main branches) but often are not pinnate. The distinguishing features of Pseudopterogorgia elisabethae are its short, stout branchlets, large, moderately pointed scaphoids with nearly or quite smooth convex surface, and large anthocodial rods. It is moderately slimy, but not as much as is the case with Pseudopterogorgia americana. The colonies may be either yellow or purple. 

Brief description Branching planar, pinnate, and plumose. Short and very narrow lateral branches arise from the main stem. The lateral branches do not branch further. Sclerites range in length from 0.05 to 0.16 mm, and are straight or slightly curved spindles with three to six transverse whorls of tubercles. Some scaphoids are distinct and have smooth tubercles on the convex side, while others are less distinct and have ornamented tubercles on both the convex and concave sides. The sclerites are yellow or red. ... 

Habit strictly palmate or umbellate state 1 pinnate, bipinnate, or flabellate to palmate or umbellate state 2 pinnate to bipinnate or flabellate (occasionally somewhat dendroid) state 3 usually simple, less often set with afew innovations or weakly branched (branches may function as new shoots) state 4. 

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