GENERAL INDEX AND GLOSSARY 
Acuminate, taper pointed. 
Adnate, connected for some distance. 
Adpressed, lying close alongside. 
Adventitious buds, buds produced in abnormal positions. 
Albany Museum Herbarium 
Alternation of generations 
Anastomosing, uniting so as to form a network. 
Antheridium 
Archegonium ... ... ... ... 
Areolae, the spaces enclosed by anastomosing veins. 
Arista, a bristle point. 
Articulated, having a distinct joint. 
Ascending, with the point turning upward. 
Atherstone, Dr, of Grahamstown. 
Attenuate, drawn out to a long point. 
Auricle, an ear-like lobe, generally at the base of a pinnule. 
Baker, John Gilbert, F.R.S., F.L.S. (Hooker & Baker, Synopsis 
Filicum ) 
„ in Annals of Botany (New Ferns) 
„ Handbook of Fern A llies 
Barkly, Sir Henry and Lady, revised list of Cape Ferns ... 
Bergius, C. W., see “ Plantarum Capensium descriptiones ex 
Schedis Bergianis,” in Linnaea , Vol. I., Berol. 1826, pp. 250- 
258, by Schlechtendal ... ... 
Bergius, P. J., “ Descriptiones Plantarum e Capite Bonae Spei, 
Holmiae, 1767,” and Act. Petrop. 1782 ... 
Bipinnate 
Bkr, J. G. Baker. 
Bolus, Harry, D.Sc., F.L.S. , Cape Town 
Bolus Herbarium 
Bory de St Vincent. 
Bowers’ scheme of classification 
Bracts ... ... ... 
Brehm, Dr, resided in Uitenhage. 
Browning, Novara Expedition. 
Br., or R. Br., R. Brown, mostly in Prod. Flor. Nov. Holland. 
Buchanan, Rev. John, revised list of Natal Ferns ... 
Buds ... ... ... ... 
Burchell, W. J 
„ Geographical Catalogue 
Burke, travelled with Zeyher in Transvaal ... 
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