OF THE FRONP. }g$ 



Menifcmthcs indica, Curt. Mag. t. 658, and 

 perhaps Epimedium ^Ipi/ium, Bngl. Bot. 

 t. 4:i8. 



6. Froxs. 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, ss in the 

 Fern tribe, Scolopendrium vulgarCy Engl. 

 Bof. t. 1150, Bolypodium vulgare, t. 1149, 

 jUpidium, t. 1458 — 14(31, Osrjiunda re- 

 g(tlis, f. 209, &c. It is also applied to 

 the Lichen tribe, and others, in which 

 the whole pkuit 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 - 

 Iructlflcation. It must however be ob- 

 served that the deposition of wood in ferns, 

 takes place exactly as in palms. 



The term frond is now used in the class 

 Crj/p t ogam ia o nl v . 



