300 FBENS : BEITISH AND FOREIGN. 



Saccoloma, sakkos, a bag or Back, loma, margin ; the union of 



the indusium with the margin, forming a hood or cyst. 

 Salpichbena, sabpi, pipe, chkena, a cloai ; the indusium being 



like a pipe. 

 Schellolepis, schello, skeleton, lepis, scale ; the character of the 



scale surrounding the sori. 

 Schizoloma, schizo, I cut, loma, a border or margin ; the sori in 



the form of a slit on the margin of the frond. 

 Scolopendrium, elcolopendra, a centipede ; the appearance of 



fructification on the under side of the frond. 

 Selaginella, the diminutive of selago {Lycopodiwm Selago). 

 Selliguea, iu memory of M. Selligue, a French optician. 

 Sitibohum,* sitos, food, holos, a large pill; the appearance of 



fructification. 

 Soromanes, soros, heap, mama, fancy ; the sporangia in fanciful 



and irregular heaps. 

 StenochlEena, stenos, narrow, chlcena, cloak ; narrow indusium. 

 Stenosemia, sfejios, narrow, sema, standard; the fertile frond 



with its narrow segments being Kke a flag. 

 Struthiopteris, strufJiios, ostrich ; the fronds beiug like the 

 . feathers of an ostrich. 



Thyrsopteris, thyrsos, bunch or raceme, jj^ms ,• the fructification 



in racemose bunches. 

 Todea, in honour of Henry Julius Tode, of Mecklenburg, an 



experienced mycologist. 

 Trichocarpa, thrix, trichos, a hair, Tca/rpa, fruit ; the fructification 



borne on a hair-Kke stalk. 

 Trichomanes, thrix, hair, manos, soft; the delicate nature of the 



fronds. 

 Trichopteiis, fhrix, hair, pteris ; the sori being furnished with 



hairs. 



Vittaria, vitta, riband ; shape of narrow fronds. 



Woodsia, iu honour of Joseph Woods, a celebrated British 



botanist (died 1864). 

 Woodwardia, in honour of Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, an 



Enghsh botanist. 



Xiphopteris, aiphos, sworA, pteris ; form of the frond. 



* For Sitilobium, at page 236 and elsewhere in this work, read SitiboHum, 



