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THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. 



barren and fertile fronds totally distinct, and borne on separate stipes (stalks). 

 The former, borne on slender, naked, straw-coloured stalks lin. to 5in. long, 

 are tripinnatifid (three times divided half-way to the midrib), and 2in. to Sin. 

 long by lfin. to 2in. broad ; their few leaflets are disposed some little 

 distance apart, and subdivided into pinnules (leafits), the upper ones wedge- 

 shaped, simple, iin. broad, the lower ones deeply cleft from the circumference 

 inwards. The texture of the pinnules is almost leathery, and their surfaces, 

 like their rachis (stalk of the leafy portion), are quite naked. The fertile 

 frond, produced separately, is composed of contracted segments disposed in 

 a panicle Sin. to Sin. long, very loose and few-branched, borne on a stalk 

 Sin. to 12in. long. — Hooker, Synopsis Filicum, p. 435. 



ANEMIDICTYON— An-e -mid-ic -ty-on. See Anemia. 

 ANETIUM — An-e -ti-um. See Hemionitis. 



