356 THE FERNS OF SOUTH AFRICA 
“ Checklist of Transvaal 
55, 
Burmann, Flora Indica , 1768 ... 
Burtt-Davy and Mrs Pott-Leendertz 
Plants” 
Capsule 
Carroid, dry, like the Karroo. 
Caudex, a tree stem. 
Cells 
Cellular cryptogams 
Channelled, having a groove down the front. 
Christensen, Index Filicum , and Supplemen 
Ciliated, margin fringed with hairs or scales. 
Circinate vernation 
Classification (Chapter VIII) ... 
Compressed, somewhat flattened. 
Confluent, partly united at the base. 
Connate, united below. 
Contracted, narrowed. 
Cordate, heart-shaped. 
Coriaceous, leathery. 
Costa, mid-rib. 
Crenate, having shallow rounded teeth. 
Cross fertilisation ... ... ... ... ... ... 
Crown ... ... ... ... 
Cryptogams 
Cultivation (Chapter IV) 
Cuneate, wedge-shaped. 
Cuspidate, short-pointed. 
Deciduous, falling off at regular seasons. 
Decurrent, having a wing continued some distance down the stem. 
Deflexed, bent downward. 
Deltoid, triangular. 
Denticulate, toothed. 
Desv., Desvaux, Ann. Linn. VI. 
Dichotomous 
Dimorphous, occurring in two forms. 
Dioecious ferns ... 
Distichous, two-ranked. 
Distribution (Chapter X) 
Distribution Areas ... ... ... ... ... ... 54, 346, 
Divergent, spreading in different directions. 
Don, D. Prodr. FI. Nepalensis. 
Dorsal, on the back. 
Drainage ... 
Drege, J. F 
East District 
Ecklon, C. F. 
E. & Z., Ecklon & Zeyher 
Elater 
Emarginate, notched at the apex. 
Endemic, confined to a particular country ... 
Engler and Prantl 
Entire, not toothed. 
Epiphytal, growing upon trees or rocks like parasites, but living 
on the atmosphere only. 
Erecto-patent, nearly horizontal both from and across the rachis. 
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