ternate
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Biternate, twice ternate; i. e. principal divisions three, each bearing three leaflets, 59.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
Leaves ternate, from 7 to 14 cm. long; resin-ducts medial, or with an occasional internal duct, hypoderm biform.
From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell
Leaves binate, rarely ternate, from 12 to 20 cm. long, slender and pliant; hypoderm inconspicuous; resin-ducts external.
From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell
Leaves all ternate; stems erect, or weak and ascending; achenes often small and light-colored.—Minn. to Mo., N. Mex., and westward.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Both this and the patarra are creeping plants: the last with ternate leaves.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Kerr, Robert
