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The Ferns of South Africa . 
Cells 
Cellular cryptogams ... 
Channelled, having a groove down the front. 
Ciliated, margin fringed with hairs or scales. 
Circinate vernation ... 
Classification ... 
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. 
Crown 
Cryptogams ... 
Cultivation 
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, occuring in two forms. 
Distichous, two-ranked. 
Distribution ... 
Districts 
Divergent, spreading in different directions. 
Dorsal, on the back. 
Drainage 
Drege, J. F 
East District ... 
Ecklon, C. F. 
E. and Z. , Ecklon and Zeyher 
Elater ... 
Emarginate, notched at the apex. 
Endemic, confined to a particular country. 
Entire, not toothed. 
Epiphytal, growing upon trees or rocks like parasites, but living on the 
atmosphere only. 
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