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GLOSSARY FOE VOL. III. 



[The present glossary contains descriptions of such terms as are not described in 

 that for Volume I. It must therefore be considered a continuation of that given at 

 page 147 in the first Volume.] 



Antrorsehj. Having an upward direction towards the summit. 



Areoles. Having spaces distinctly marked out on the surface. 



Auricled. Eared. 



JBilobed. Divided into two lobes. 



Bipartite. Deeply divided into two parts. 



Cartilaginous. Substance tough or hard. 



Chartaceous. Thin, flexible, and membranous. 



Continuous sort. "When there is no break from uniformity. 



Cultriform. Knife -blade shaped. 



Decumbent. Reclining, but having a tendency to rise at the extremity. 



Deltoid. Somewhat triangular. 



Digitate. Resembling fingers. 



Flaccid. "Weak or bending. 



Glaucous. "When the green colour has a peculiar whitish-blue lustre. 



Incurved. Bending from without inwards. 



Interrupted sori. Not continuous. 



Muricato- scabrous. Rough, produced by short, hard, stiff pubescence or 



scattered tubercles. 

 Orbicular. Circular. 

 Palmate. Hand- shaped. 

 Pinnulets. Leaflets. 

 Pilose. Hairy. 



Plane. Perfectly level or flat. 

 Reticulated. Resembling net-work. 

 Reflected. Turned back. 

 Sagittate. Arrow-shaped. 

 Scabrous. Rough. 

 Squamiferous. Covered with scales. 

 Subhastate. Nearly halbert- shaped. 



Subterraneously. When the rhizoma creeps underground. 

 Subtrilobate. Nearly divided into three lobes. 

 Trapezoid. "When the sides of a four- sided leaf are unequal. 

 Trilobate. Divided into three lobes. 

 Trilobed. Divided into three lobes. 



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