GLOSSARY. 103 



CRYPTOGAMOUS, plants whose reproductive organs are 



not apparent. 



CUCULLATE, shaped like a hood, cowl, or bladder. 

 CUNEATE, wedge-shaped, widening upwards. 

 CYLINDRICAL, formed like a round tube. 

 DECIDUOUS, falling off. 



DECOMPOUND, divided yet further beyond tripinnate. 

 DECURRENT, running downwards, as the base of a leaf 



down the stem. 



DEFLEXED, bending or curving downwards. 

 DEHISCING, bursting open. 

 DELTOID, trowel-, or triangular-spear-shaped. 

 DENTATE, toothed. 



DEPAUPERATED, lessened ; contracted ; impoverished. 

 DIAPHANOUS, transparent. 

 DICHOTOMOUSLY, forked in 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. 

 EXANNULATE, ferns not having a ring round their 



seed-cases. 



EXSERTED, projected beyond the margin. 

 FALCATE, shaped like a reaping-hook. 

 FILIFORM, thread-shaped. 

 FLABELLIFORM, fan-shaped, 

 FLEXUOUS, winding ; crooked ; zigzag. 

 FROND, the main stem oi a fern with its branches, &c. 

 FRUCTIFICATION, ) the sori, spore-cases, and their 

 FRUIT, / appendages. 



