GLOSSARY. 
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N.B.—In compound terms the first qualifies the second. 
Acuminate, tapering off to an acute point. 
Adnate, joined to that on which it grows by its whole breadth of 
foliage; connected. 
Adpressed, close to the stem. 
Alternate, branches or leaves succeeding each other interchangeably, 
first on one and then on the other side. 
Anastomose, to run one into the other. 
Annulate, ferns that have a ring round their seed-cases. 
Annulus, the jointed ring of the seed-case. 
Anther, the vessel containing the fertilising pollen at the top of the 
filament of the stamen. 
Aristate, terminating in a bristle ; awned. 
Articulated, jointed. 
Attenuated, growing gradually narrower; tapering. 
Auricled, having a kind of ear-shaped projection. 
Awned, terminating in a bristle ; aristate. 
Axil, the angle formed by the leaf-stalk, or branch and stem. 
Axillary, seated in the axil. 
Bidentate, twice-toothed. 
Bifid, cleft in two. 
Bipinnate, twice-pinnate. 
Caliciform, like the calyx or cup olf a flower. 
Capillary, fine thread- or hair-like. 
Caudex, the part under or on the ground, from which the frond 
springs; popularly the root; to which the fibres or actual roots 
are attached. 
Cellular, consisting of little cells or cavities. 
Ciliated, fringed with minute hairs. 
