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FERNS : BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 
Doryopteris, dgry, spear or halbert, pteris ; form of the fronds. 
Drymoglossum, drymos, wood, glossa, tongue; the fronds like 
tongues on trees. 
Drynaria, dryads; the sterile fronds being like oak leaves, 
which tree was sacred to the Dryads. 
Diyomenis, dryos, dryads (as above), rneniskos, a crescent ; shape 
of the sori. 
Egenolfia, in honour of Christian Egenolph, a German author 
of a book on herbs. 
Elaphoglossum, elaphos, a stag, glossa, tongue ; the fronds 
being like the stag’s tongue. 
Eupodium, eu, good, pons, podos, a foot; the sorus having a 
foot-stalk. 
Eadyenia, in honour of Dr. M'Fadyen, an eminent physician 
in Jamaica. 
Feea, in honour of Mons. A. L. A. Fee, Professor of Botany at 
Strasburg, a celebrated writer on ferns. 
Gleichenia, in honour of Baron P. F. von Gleichen, a German 
botanist. 
Goniophlebium, gonia, angle, phlehes, veins ; the veins meeting, 
forming angles. 
Goniopteris, gonia, angle, pteris ; the veins meeting, forming 
angles. 
Grammitis, gramma, a line ; the sori being linear. 
Gymnogramma, gymnos, naked, gramma, a line ; the sori on the 
veins in lines, and naked. 
Gymnopteris, gymnos, naked, pteris ; the fructification naked. 
Haplopteris, haploos, simple, pteris ; simple venation. 
Helminthostachys, helminthos, worm, staclvys, a spike ; the 
fructification in compact spikes, worm-like. 
Hemidictyum, liemi, half, dilctyon, a net ; the outer portion only 
of the veins being reticulated. 
Hemionites, a name given by ancient botanists to a plant now 
called Asplenium hemionites, but retained as a generic name 
for a West Indian fern by Linnaeus. 
Humata, humatus, humid ; in opposition to Adiantum. 
Hymenodium, hymen, membrane ; the character of the frond. 
Hymenolepis, hymen, membrane, lepis, a scale; membraneous 
scales covering the fructification. 
