LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS. 



LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS OF WORDS OF FREQUENT 

 OCCURRENCE IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES. 



BOTANICAL TERMS. 



Caud. caudex, from which arises the frond or stipes. 



St.= stipes, or stipites, which support the frond. 



Fr. = frond, or fronds. 



Pinnl. = pinnule, or pinnules. 



Invol. = involucre, by many botanists called indusium. 



Reccpt. = receptacle, that which bears the sori or capsules ; pi-ominent in most Cyathecv ; 

 elongated and columnar, or even bristle -shaped, in Hymenophyllum and Trichomanes. 



Caps. = capsule, or capsules. 



Segm.= segment, segments, or lobes: often used indifferently ; but a segment generally 

 indicates a deeper or more elongated lobe. 



Prim. = primary, or first division of a compoundly pinnate or pinnatifid frond ; thus 

 prim, div., or prim, pinna or pinnl. 



Second. = secondary ; the second principal division, or pinna, of a frond. 



MEASURES OF LENGTH. 



Ft. = foot, or feet. 



In. = inch, or inches. 



Zw.=line, -^ of an inch. 



1. = long ; thus, 1 in. 1., 1 ft. 1. 



w. br. = wide or broad ; thus, 1 line w. or 1 in. br. 



AUTHORS' NAMES AND THEIR WORKS. 



W. = Willd. = Willdenow. Thus, W. Sp. = Willdenow's Species Plantarum. 



Sw. = Swartz; generally, unless when otheiwise mentioned, referring to his Synopsis 

 Filicum. 



Scfafe. = Schkuhr, as Schk. F. = Schkuhr's Filices. 



KZG. in SchJc. = Kunze, in Schk. Fil. Suppl. 



HTc. Sp. = Hooker, Species Filicum. 



Hk. et Or. F. = Hooker and Greville's Icones Filicum. 



HTc. Ic. = Hooker, Icones Plantarurn. 



Hk. Cent. F. = Hooker's Century of Ferns, which corresponds with vol. 10 of Icones 

 Plantarum. 



Hk. F. Ex. = Hooker's Filices Exoticae. 



Hk. 0. P. = Hooker's Garden Ferns. 



Hk. 2d. Cent. F. = Hooker's 2d. Century of Ferns. 



Hab.= habitat, or locality, indicating the native country of the species. 



Names of countries are so commonly abbreviated in descriptive Botany, that they 

 scarcely need explanation : N. Am. = North America, S.Am.= South America, &c. &c. 

 M alaya = Malay Islands and Archipelago. " India " generally implies the British posses- 

 sions of the mainland, exclusive of N. Ind. = North India, chiefly comprising the Hima- 

 layan range, and exclusive of the Indian islands. Mtx. = Mexico. Pacif. = Islands of the 

 the the Pacific, unless otherwise expressed, &c. &c. 



