LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS. 



LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS OF WORDS OF FREQUENT 

 OCCURRENCE IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES. 



BOTANICAL TERMS. 



(7aMd.=caudex, from which arises the frond or stipes. 



8t.= stipes, or stipites, which support the frond. 



Fr. = frond, or fronds. 



Pinnl. = pinnule, or pinnules. 



Invol. = involucre, by many botanists called indusium. 



Recept. = receptacle, that which bears the sori or capsules ; prominent in most Cyalliete; 

 elongated and columnar, or even bristle-shaped, in Hymenophyllum and Trichoinanes. 



Caps.= capsule, or capsules. 



Segm.= segment, segments, or lobes: often used indifferently ; but a segment generally 

 indicates a deeper or more elongated lobe. 



Pnm.= primary, or first division of a compoundly pinnate or pinnatifid frond ; thus 

 prim, div., or prim, pinna or pinnl. 



Second. = secondary; the second principal division, or pinna, of a frond. 



MEASURES OF LENGTH. 

 Ft. = foot, or feet. 

 In. =inch, or inches. 

 K.=line, ^ of an inch. 

 Z.=long; thus, 1 in. 1., 1 ft. 1. 

 w. Ir. =wide or broad ; thus, 1 line w. or 1 in. br. 



AUTHORS' NAMES AND THEIR WORKS. 



TT.= Wittd. = Willdenow. Thus, W. Sp.=Willdenow's Species Plantarum. 



&c. = Swarti!; generally, unless when otherwise mentioned, referring to his Synopsia 

 Filicum. 



ScM;. = Schkuhr, as Schk. F. = Schkuhr's Filices. 



Kze. in cM.=Kunze, in Schk. Fil. Suppl. 



Hk. Sp. = Hooker, Species Filicum. 



Ilk. et Or. F.= Hooker and Greville's Icones Filicum. 



Hk. Ic.= Hooker, Icones Plantarum. 



Ek. Cent. F.= Hooker's Century of Ferns, which corresponds with vol. 10 of Icones 

 Plantarum. 



Hk. F. JEx.= Hooker's Filices Exoticse. 



Hk. O. F.= Hooker's Garden Ferns. 



Hk. 2d. Cent. F.= Hooker's 2d. Century of Ferns. 



Hab. = habitat, or locality, indicating the native country of the species. 



Names of countries are so commonly abbreviated in descriptive Botany, that they 

 scarcely need explanation: ^V. Ain. = North America, S. -4m. = South America, &c. &c. 

 Malaya = Malay Islands and Archipelago. " India" generally implies the British pos- 

 sessions of the mainland, exclusive of .2V. Ind.= North India, chiefly comprising the 

 Himalayan range, and exclusive of the Indian islands. Mex. Mexico. Parlf. = Islands 

 of the Pacific, unless otherwise expressed, &c. &c. 



