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Dimidiato-cuneate. Divided into two wedge-shaped parts. 



Eleneous. Like ebony. 



Elongate. Drawn out, lengthened, long in comparison with its breadth. 



Mong ate- acuminate. Long, and drawn out to a point. 



Emarginate. Slightly notched at the summit, as if a piece were cut out. 



Ensiform. Sword-shaped. 



Entire-frond. Consisting of one piece; not divided. 



Falcated. Hooked; plane and curved, with the edges parallel. 



Farina. Mealy; a powder found on some species of Perns. 



Fasciculate. Where several similar parts originate at the same spot, and 



are collected close together. 

 Ferruginous. Colour of rusty iron. 

 Fertile. A fruitful frond. 



Filiform. Cylindrical and slender, like a thread. 

 Flahellate. Fan-shaped; rounded at the apex, and wedge-shaped at the 



base. 

 Flexuous-veins. Winding tortuous veins, bending to and fro in opposite 



directions. 

 Frond. The leaf of a Fern. 

 Fructification. The reproductive organs. 

 Fusco-pulescent. Reddish green hairs or scales. 

 Glabrous. Smooth, without hairs. 

 Glandulose. Having glands. 

 Imbricate. Covered with scales, overlaping each other like the tiles of 



a house. 

 Inciso-serrate. When the edges are sharply cut in teeth-like form. 

 Indusimn. A thin skin which covers the sporangia or seed vessels of 



some Ferns. 

 Intramarginal. When seed vessels are situated between margin and 



midrib, it is said to be intramarginal; 

 Laciniated. Fringed. 

 Lanceolate. When the veins extend from end to end, and are rather 



more distant in the middle of the leaf. 

 Lanceolate- ac^iminate. Narrow, and tapering at each end. 

 Lateral. When indusium is produced on one side of the receptacle. 

 Lateral-frond. Fixed on one side. 

 Linear -filiform. Cylindrical, and with margins parallel, the length being 



great in comparison with the breadth. 

 Linear leaf When the divergent veins are but slightly distant, and 



extend from the base to the apex, inclosing only a narrow slip of 



parenchyma; when both sides are parallel, the leaves of grasses 



are examples. 

 Lobed. Separated into lobes. 



