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lobes the veining is represented. Here the veins are not free, 

 but as they form a net- work they are said to be reticulated. You 

 will look in vain on this frond for fruit-dots, but beside it grows 



Fig. 266. 



Fig. 267. 



Fig. 268. 



Fig. 269. 



another, very different in appearance, so different that you will 

 hardly believe it to be a frond at all. It is shown in Fig. 267. It 

 is twice pinnate, the pinnules being little globular bodies, one of 



