FERNS : BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 



Saccoloma, saMos, a bag or sack, loma, margin; the union of 



the mdusmm with the margin, forming a hood or cyst. 

 Salpichlasna, salpi, pipe, chlcena, a cloak; the indusium being 



like a pipe. 

 Schellolepis, scliello, skeleton, lepis, scale ; the character of the 



scale surrounding the sori. 

 Schizoloma, scUzo, I cut, loma, a border or margin ; the sori in 



the form of a slit on the margin of the frond. 

 Scolopendrium, sltolopendra, a centipede ; the appearance of 



fructification on the under side of the frond. 

 Selaginella, the diminutive of selago (Lycopodium Selaqo) 

 Selhguea, in memory of M. Selligue, a French optician. 

 Sitibolium * Mas, food, lolos, a large pill; the appearance of 



fructification. 

 Soromanes, soros, heap, mania, fancy; the sporangia in fanciful 



and irregular heaps. 



Steuochlaena, stenos, narrow, chlcena, cloak ; narrow indusium 

 btenosemia, stenos, narrow, sema, standard ; the fertile frond 



with its narrow segments being like a flag 

 Struthiopteris, strutkios, ostrich ; the fronds being like the 

 feathers of an ostrich. 



Thyrsopteris, thyrsos, bunch or raceme, pteris / the fructification 



in racemose bunches. 

 Todea, in honour of Henry Julius Tode, of Mecklenburg, an 



experienced mycologist. 

 Trichocarpa, thrix, trichos, a hair, Jcarpa, fruit ; the fructification 



borne on a hair-like stalk. 

 Trichomanes, thrix, hair, manos, soft; the delicate nature of the 



fronds. 



Trichopteris, thrix, hair, pteris ; the sori being furnished with 

 hairs. 



Vittaria, vitta, riband ; shape of narrow fronds. 



Woodsia, in honour of Joseph Woods, a celebrated British 



botanist (died 1864). 

 Woodwardia, in honour of Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, an 



English botanist. 



Xiphopteris, xiphos, sword, pteris ; form of the frond. 



* For Sitilobium, at page 236 and elsewhere iu this work, read Sitibolium. 



