118 OF THE FROND. 



1458 — 1461, Osmunda regalis, t. 209, Scc.(40) It 

 is also applied to the Licliin tribe, and others, in which 

 the whole plant is either a crustaceous or a leafy sub- 

 stance, from which the fructification immediately pro- 

 ceeds. Linnaeus considered Palm-trees as fronds, so 

 far correctly as that they have not the proper stem of 

 a tree, see/>. 59 ; but they are rather perhaps herbs 

 whose stalks bear the fructification. It must however 

 be observed that the deposition of wood in ferns, 

 t£:kes place exactly as in palms. 



The term frond is now used in the class Crypto- 

 gamia only. 



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, Aga- 

 ricus ca?7ipestris, Sowerby^s Fungi, t. 305. 



(40) [Many Fei'ns, of the three last mentioned genera, are 

 found in the United States.] 



* Martyn, Language of Botany. 



