134 OF THE STIPE. 



7. Stipes, Stipe*, is the stem of a frond, 

 which in ferns is commonly scaly. See 

 the plates cited in the last section. The 

 term is likewise applied to the stalk of a 

 Fungus, as the Common Mushroom, 

 Agariats campestris, Sowerbys Fungi, 

 t. 305. 



* Marty n, Language of Botany ;. 



