FARTS OF FFFNS. 



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Pendulous— Drooping. Hanging down. 



Persistent — Not falling off. 



Proi-iferous — Producing young plants or buds 



on frond itself. 

 Prostrate — Lying down. 

 Recurved — Bent back. 

 Renifoem — Kidney shaped. 

 Reticulated — Net-fashion. 

 Retuse — Having a broad, 



end, 

 Revolute — Rolled back. 

 Scabrous — Covered with short hairs. 

 Scaberulous — Slightly rough. 

 Serrulate — Finely toothed. 

 Setose — Bristly. 

 Sinuate — Wavy. Having rounded projections 



and hollows alternately. 

 Sinus — An indentation 



Meshed, 

 blunt, or indented 



Rough. 



SoRiFERous — Sorus-bearing 



Spathulate — Broadest 

 tapering. 



at top. Opposite of 



Spinous — Thorn}'. 



Squarrose — Rough. Scaly. 



Stellate— Star-shaped. Tops of hairs are 

 sometimes so. 



Stipitate — Stalked. 



Strigose — Having coarse hairs, all lying one 

 way. 



Sub (as sub-acute) — Almost. Approximating to. 



Subulate — Narrow, tapering, sharply-pointed, 

 and slightly bent, like a shoemaker's 

 awl. 



Terete — Cylindrical. 



Ternate — Divided at once into three branches. 



ToMENTUM — Short close down ; like very short- 

 piled velvet. 



Tomentose — Covered with tomentum. 



Truncate — Cut short off. 



Tubercles — Warty projections. 



Ueceolate — Urn-shaped. 



Viviparous — Producing young plants on the 

 fronds. 



