XXVI GLOSSARY. 



Decurved, curved downwards. 



Decumbent, prostrate with the tip rising upwards. 



Defiexed, bent downwards. 



Dehisce, split open. 



Deltoid, like a Greek Delta, or triangle (leaf, Tab. LIV., J. I). 



Dendroid, tree-like. 



Dentate, sharply toothed (leaves, Tab. I., n). 



Denticulate, very finely toothed, or obscurely toothed (Tab. XII., F. 3a; Tab. XII. r 



I. ia). 

 Denuded, having the leaves worn off. 

 Diaphanous, colourless and transparent. 

 Dichotomous, repeatedly forked (stem, Tab. I., 5)- 

 Ditnorphous, of two forms. 

 Dioicous, having the male and fertile inflorescences on separate plants (Tab. V., 20, 



21). 

 Discoid, like a disc or plate (male inflorescence, Tab. XL. K. ). 

 Distichous, in two opposite rows on the stem (leaves, Tab. II., I). 

 Divaricate, Divergent, spreading widely apart. 

 Dorsal, belonging to or on the back, i.e., the face of a leaf remote from the stem. 



Emarginaie, having a small notch at the end (the nearest approach to this in the 



Plates is the leaf-apex, Tab. XXVIII. , C.). 

 Emergent, half uncovered ; of the capsule, when the ^erichsetial bracts reach but do 



not overtop it (Tab. XXX., J. 5). Cf. immersed, exserted. 

 Endemic, confined to a single country or geographical area. 

 Endolheciuui, the inner layers of cells of the sporogonium. 

 Epiphragm, a membrane covering the mouth of the capsule. 



Equidistant, at equal distances from one another (peristome teeth, Tab. V., 5, 6, 7). 

 Equitant, having the leaf-bases conduplicate and sheathing alternately one above the 



other on opposite sides of the stem. 

 Erecto-patent, mid-way between erect and patent; i.e., spreading from the stem at art 



angle of 45 or less. 

 Erase, Eroded, irregularly notched or worn, as if gnawed (perichsetial bracts, Tab. 



XLVIIL, C. 5). 

 Everted, abruptly turned outward. 

 Exanmilate, without an annulus. 

 Excavate ( leaf -insertion ), hollowed out in a curve. 



Excurient nerve, running out beyond the lamina of the leaf (Tab. II., 9, 10). 

 Exserted, uncovered ; of the capsule, when the perichsetial bracts do not reach so high 



as the base (Tab. XXX., K.). Cf. emergent, immersed. Of the columella, when 



it protrudes from the mouth of the capsule (Tab. IV., 15 ; Tab. V., 4). 



Falcate, curved like a sickle (leaf, Tab. II. , 8). 



Falcato-secund , falcate and turned to one side of the stem (leaves, Tab. II. 3). 



Fascicle, a bunch of leaves or branches. 



Fasciculate, arranged more or less in bunches. 



Fastigiate, with the branches reaching to the same height. 



Fibrillose, with fine fibres or threads (leaf-cell, Tab. III., 13). 



Filiform, Filamentous, thread-like. 



Fimbriate, fringed with cilia (Tab. VII., F. 1, G. I). 



Flagella, very fine string-like branchlets. 



Flagellifortn, like the thong of a whip. 



