OF THE STIPE. 103 



Fern tribe, Scolopendrlum vulgar e, Engl. Bot. 

 t. 1150, Polypodium vulgare, t. 1149, Aspidium, 

 tt 1458 1461, Osmunda regalis, t. 209, &c. It 

 is also applied to the Lichen tribe, and .others, in 

 which the whole plant is either a crustaceous or a 

 leafy substance, from which the fructification imme- 

 diately proceeds. Linnaeus considered Palm-trees 

 as fronds, so far correctly as that they have not the 

 proper stem of a tree, seep. 4.5 ; but they are rather 

 perhaps herbs whose stalks bear the fructificati9n. 

 It must however be observed that the deposition of 

 wood in ferns, takes place exactly as in palms. 



The term frond is now used in the class Crypto- 

 gamia only. 



, STIPES, Stipe*, is the stem of a frond, which in 

 ferns is commonly scaly, See the plates cited in the 

 last section. The term is likewise applied to the 

 stalk of a Fungus, as the Common Mushroom, 

 Agaricus campestris, Sowerbys Fungi, t. 305. 



* Martyn, Language of Botany. 



