58 GLOSSARY. 



DELTOID, trowel- or triangular-spear-shaped. 



DENTATE, toothed. 



DEPAUPERATED, lessened ; contracted; impoverished. 



DIAPHANOUS, transparent. 



DICHOTOMOUSLY, forkedly, into two branches. 



DIGITATE, like the human fingers. 



DISTICHOUS, two-rowed or ranked. 



DORSAL, on the back. 



DORSIFEROUS, bearing seed on the back. 



EVERGREEN, retaining its leaves during the winter, 

 whether changed in colour or not (confined to 

 the latter sense herein). 



EXANNULATE, ferns not having a ring round their 

 seed-cases. 



EXSERTED, projected beyond the margin of its conti- 

 nent, or sheath. 



FALCATE, shaped like a reaping-hook. 

 FILIFORM, thread-shaped. 

 FLABELLIFORM, fan-shaped. 

 FLEXUOUS, winding ; crooked ; zigzag. 



FROND, the main stem with its branches, leaves, &c. ; 

 critically, the leafy portion only. 



FRUCTIFICATION, "[the seed, seed-vessels, and their 



FRUIT, J appendages. 



FURCATE, forked. 



GIBBOUS, bulged out. 



GLABROUS, bald ; smooth. 



GLAUCOUS GREEN, hoary grey green, like the back 



of a cabbage-leaf. 

 GRUMOUS, thick ; clotted 



