PTERIDOPHYTES 



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FIGS. 382-385. Aspidium: 382, general habit, showing leaves and circinate verna- 

 tion, dorsiventral (subterranean) stem, and secondary roots; 383, a single pinnule, 

 showing dichotomous veins and sori with shieldlike indusia; 384, section through a 

 sorus, showing the indusium and long-stalked sporangia; 385, a single sporangium, 

 showing the incomplete vertical annulus and the transverse dehiscence. After 

 WOSSIDLO. 



