GLOSSARY. 



N.B. In compound terms the first qualifies the second. 



ACUMINATE, tapering off to an acute point. 



ADNATE, joined to that on which it grows by its 

 whole breadth of foliage ; connected. 



^PRESSED, close to the stem. 



ALLOSORUS, the name used by some writers for the 

 Cryptogramma. 



ALTERNATE, branches or leaves succeeding each other 

 interchangeably, first on one and then on the 

 other side. 



ANASTOMOSE, to run one into the other. 



ANNULATE, ferns that have a ring round their seed- 

 cases. 



ANNULUS, the jointed ring to the seed-case. 



ANTHER, the vessel containing the fertilizing farina, 

 affixed to the top of the stamen or barren 

 filament of a flower or blossom. 



AHISTATE, terminating in a bristle ; awned. 

 ARTICULATED, jointed. 



ASPLENIUM GERMANICUM, the name used by some 

 writers for the Alternifolium . 



