GLOSSARY. o^o 



Filiform, string-like — the size of common twine. 



Flabelliform, fan-shaped. 



Lanceolate, shaped like a lance, narrow, tapering at 



each end. 

 Linear, narrow, the same width all along. 

 Orbicular, circular, — round. 

 Palmate, shaped like the hand, with the fingers 



expanded. 

 Pinnatifid, cut transversely into several oblong 



segments. 

 Plane, flat, level. 

 Proliferous, when a second frond arises from the 



first, nearly similar to it. 

 Saccate, double and hollow, in the form of a bag. 

 Simple, undivided, consisting of one — unbranched. 

 Terete, round, in opposition to flat. 

 Tubular, hollow, round like a tube. 

 Virgate, long and straight, like a wand. 



In substance the Frond is— 

 Cartilaginous, stiff and gristly. 

 Coriaceous, when leathery and tough. 



