OF THE FROND. 133 



Menyanthts fndica, Curt. Map;, h 658, and 

 perhaps Epimeduun alpinum, Engl. Bat. 

 t. 438. 



6. Frons. A Frond. In this the stem, 

 leaf and fructification are united, or, in 

 other words, the flowers and fruit are 

 produced from the leaf itself, as in the 

 • Fern tribe, Scolopendrium vulgdre, Engl. 

 Bot. t. 1150, Po/ypodium vulgare, 1. 1149, 

 Aspidium, t. 1458 — 1401, Osmunda re- 

 galls, t. 209, &c. It is also applied to 

 the Lichen tribe, and others, in which 

 the whole plant is either a crustaceous or 

 a leafy substance, from which the fructifi- 

 cation immediately proceeds. Linnaeus 

 considered Palm-trees as fronds, so far 

 correctly as that they have not the proper 

 stem of a tree, see p. 58 ; but they are 

 rather perhaps herbs whose stalks bear the 

 fructification. It must however be ob- 

 served that the deposition of wood in ferns, 

 takes place exactly as in palms. 



'J "he term frond is now used in the class 

 Cryptogamia only. 



