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BRITISH FERNS. 
Circinate, coiled inwards, like a’watch-spring ora shepherds crook. 
Clay ATE, club-shaped, thinner at the base, and thicker upwards. 
Compound, composed of many parts or divisions. 
Compressed, a cylinder, more or less flattened. 
Concolorous, of one uniform colour. 
Confluent, meeting or running together ; uniting. 
Connate, joined at the base. 
Convoluted, rolled together ; curled inwards. 
Cordate, heart-shaped. 
Coriaceous, leathery. 
Cotyledons, the perishable side-lobes of the seed which furnish 
nourishment to the embryo plant. 
Crenate, ) 
~ } notched, indented. 
Crenulate, ) 
Crenatures, notches ; indentations. 
Crown, the rounded top of the root projecting above the ground. 
Cryptogamous, plants wdiose reproductive organs are not apparent. 
Cucullate, shaped like a hood, cowl, or bladder. 
Cuneate, wedge-shaped, widening upwards. 
Cylindrical, formed like a round tube. 
Deciduous, falling off. 
Decompound, divided yet further beyond tripinnate. 
Decurrent, running dowmwards, as the base of a leaf down the 
stem. 
Deflexed, bending or curving downwards. 
Dehiscing, bursting open. 
Deltoid, trowel-, or triangular-spear-shaped. 
Dentate, toothed. 
Depauperated, lessened ; contracted ; impoverished. 
Diaphanous, transparent. 
DlCHOTOMOUSLY, forked in two branches. 
Digitate, like the human fingers. 
Distichous, two-rowed or ranked. 
Dorsal, on the back. 
Dorsiferous, bearing seed on the back. 
Evergreen, retaining its leaves during the winter. 
Exannulate, ferns not having a ring round their seed-cases, 
Exserted, projected beyond the margin. 
