or THE STIPE. 103 



Fera tribe^, Scolopendrium vidgare, Engl. Bot, 

 t. lloO, Polijpodium vulgar e, t. 1149. Aspidlum, 

 t. 1458—1461, Osmunda regalis, 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 fructification imme- 

 diately proceeds. Linnceus considered Palm-trees 

 as fronds, so far correctly as that they have not the 

 proper stem of a tree, see /;. 4.5 ; but they are rather 

 perhaps herbs whose stalks l)ear the fructification. 

 It must however be observed that the deposition of 

 w^ood in ferns, takes 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 

 ]ast section. The term is likewise applied to the 

 stalk of a Fungus, as the Common Mushroom, 

 Agaricus ccunpestris, Soxverbys Fungi, t. 305. 



* jMartyn, Language of Botany. 



