GLOSSARY. 
Anastomosing, uniting of veins or their branches. 
Arachnoid, like a spiders web. 
Areolae, small spaces formed by the joining of veins or their branches, 
Articulated, jointed. 
Axil, the angle formed between the axis and any organ that springs from it. 
Capsule, the vessel which contains the spores. 
Caudex, an upright stem bearing fronds. 
Ciliated, having marginal hairs, 
Circinate, coiled like a crozier. 
Confluent, running together. 
Cordate, heart shaped. 
Costa, the midvein, or the rachis continued into the frond or segment 
Crenate, having rounded notches. 
Decurrent, running downwards. 
Deflexed, bent downwards. 
Dichotomous, dividing in pairs. 
Divaricate, spreading abruptly. 
Extrorse, turning outwards. 
Falcate, bent like a sickle. 
Flarellate, fan-shaped. 
Frond, The whole of the leafy portion of a fern from the point where it 
either branches or becomes leafy, is called the frond ; the 
lower part of the stem to where it issues from the rhizome 
or caudex, is called the Stipes. 
Gemmiferous, bearing buds. 
Glaucous, covered with with a fine whitish bloom. 
Imbricate, overlapping like tiles. 
Indusium or Involucre, the membrane that covers or encloses the 
capsules, and which is of various forms. 
Intramarginal, within the margin. 
Involucre, indusium. 
Lobe, an ultimate divison of the frond. 
Obovate, egg-shaped with the broad end uppermost. 
Oligocarpous, with only few capsules in each sorus. 
Paniculate, in the form of a panicle i. e. a loose arrangement of flower 3 
or fruit like a head of oats. 
Pinna, the first division of the frond. 
Pinnule, the second division of the frond. 
Pinhatifid, divided into lobes or segments from the margin towards the 
centre. 
Rachis, the divisions of the stipes 
Receptacle, that which bears the capsules. 
Reflexed, curved backwards. 
Rhizome, a prostrate rooting stem from which the fronds arise, sometimes 
above the ground or on rocks on trees; and then usually scaly, 
sometimes beneath the ground and then naked or nearly so. 
