322 GLOSSARY. 



CILIATE. Fringed with fine hairs. 



CIRCINATE. Coiled, as the buds of ferns, from tip to base. 



CLAVATE. Club shaped. 



COMPOUND. Divided into two or more portions, said of the frond. 



CONFLUENT. Blended together. 



CORDATE. Heartshaped ; ovate with a sinus at base. 



CORIACEOUS. Like leather in texture. 



CRENATE. With rounded teeth ; said of margins. 



CRENULATE. Scalloped with small rounded teeth. 



CROSIER. An uncoiling frond. 



CROWN. The growing end of the rootstock or caudex. 



CUNEATE. Wedge shaped. 



CUSPIDATE. Terminating in a sharp, hard point. 



DECIDUOUS. Not evergreen ; subject to being shed at certain sea- 

 sons. 



DECOMPOUND. Several times compounded or divided. 



DECUMBENT. Not erect ; bending along the ground. 



DECURRENT. Extended downward along the rachis; said of the 

 bases of pinnae, etc. 



DEFLEXED. Bent abruptly downward. 



DENTATE. Toothed ; said of the margins. 



DENTICULATE. Finely toothed. 



DEPAUPERATE. Starved ; prevented from coming to its natural size 

 through lack of nourishment. 



DICHOTOMO us. Forked in pairs ; two forked. 



DIMIDIATE. Halved, or as if one half was wanting, as in the pin- 

 nules of some Adiantums. 



DIMORPHOUS. Of two forms ; said of ferns whose fertile and sterile 

 fronds are not alike. 



DISSECTED. Cut into many lobes or divisions. 



ELLIPTICAL. Oblong with rounded ends. 



EMARGINATE. Notched at the summit. 



ENTIRE. Not divided ; said of fronds or pinnules whose margins 

 are without notches or teeth. 



FALCATE. Scythe shaped ; curved upward. 



FERTILE. Producing spores. 



FLABELLATE. Fan-shaped. 



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