ETYMOLOGY, ` 413 
Dictyocline, diktyon, a net, kline, a bed; the receptacles 
netted. 
= Dictyogramma, diktyon, gramma, a line; the sori reti- 
culated. 
Dictyopteris, diktyon, pteris; the veins reticulated. 
Dictyoxiphium, diktyon, æiphion, sword; the veins reticu- 
lated, and the form of the frond. 
Didymochlena, didymos, two or double, chilena, a cloak ; 
the indusium being double. 
Diplazium, diplazo, to be double; two indusia on the same 
vein. 
Diplora, in allusion to the double bordered receptacle. 
Dipteris, di, two, pteris; the fan fronds in two parts. 
Doodia, in honour of Samuel Doody, a London apothecary, 
and British cryptogamist. 
Doryopteris, dory, spear or halbert, pteris; form of the 
fronds. 
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Drymoglossum, drymos, wood, glossa, tongue; the beet SC 
like tongues upon trees. 
Drynaria, dryads ; the sterile fronds being like oak o 
which tree was sacred to the Dryads or wood nymphs. 
Dryomenis, dryos, dryads (as above), meniskos, a crescent; ` - S 
shape of the sori. 
Dryostachum, dryos (as above) stachys, spike; the form of 
the fertile pinnse. 
Egenolfia in honour of Christian Egenolph, a ost ae 
author of a book on Herbs. 
Elaphoglossum, elaphos, a stag, glossa, tongue ; the fronds (58 
being like the stag's tongue. 
CS Eupodium, eu, good, pous, podos, a foot; the sorus having a 
foot-stalk. 
