STEUCTUUE OF TERNS. 



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to render the description intelligible to those who may 

 not possess a large amount of botanical knowledge, are 

 perhaps not unexceptionable; but the student who really 

 desires to pursue the subject further under a more scien- 

 tific guise is recommended to consult Hofmeister's treatise 

 on the " Germination, Development, and fructification of 

 the Higher Cryptogamia," of which a translation has been 

 published by the Eay Society. 



Feond of a Ferx. 



