The frondof Sphenopteris bifida was of a more simple form than that of its larger congener, and not a little resembled a living fern of New Zealand, Coenopteris vivipara.
It presents at first sight more the appearance of a Cycadaceous frond than any other vegetable organism of the Carboniferous age which I have yet seen.
While he sang, a second oriole swooped upward between two vanes of a frond to a small ball of fibers knotted close to the midrib.
These he would carry in a basket so cunningly woven from a single palm frond that it shared our interest in its contents.
It is possible to place a bit of weed in a tumbler of salt water and have a dozen people examine it without seeing anything but a yellowish brown frond with many long, narrow leaves and a number of berry-like structures.
Clinging to the topmost frond was an oriole, jet as night, with the gold of sunshine on crown and shoulders and back.
The nest was built on the frond of a Calamus, the end of which rested in the fork of a small sapling.
Stout weeds appear favourite sites, but I have found old nests in dwarf palm-trees at the junction of the frond with the trunk, and in one instance I found an old nest on the ground, undoubtedly belonging to this bird.
In the Dictyoteae the frond is mostly flat, with a reticulated surface, which is sprinkled when in fruit with groups of naked spores or spore cysts.
The next group, the Laurenciaceae, are cartilaginous and cylindrical or compressed, the frond in the greater portion of them being inarticulate and solid.
In Codium Bursa the filamentous frond is spherical and hollow, presenting more the appearance of a round sponge or puff-ball than a sea-weed, and is somewhat rare.
THE LOWER SIDE OF A FERN FROND One of the brown outgrowths on the under side of a fern frond.
If we tease a stem or a frond of one of the Wracks upon a slide and examine the result of our efforts under the microscope we shall see that the cells which compose the Wrack are not by any means similar to one another.
Those of us who have mastered the, by no means difficult, art of section cutting, should cut sections of stem and frond and compare them with sections of leaf and stem of some higher plant.
Thus the whole frond is from five or six to fifteen or eighteen inches broad, and, while somewhat funnel-form in the centre, radiates nearly horizontally towards the circumference.
The veins and veinlets of the frond are very distinct, being marked by depressions in the upper surface in the living fronds, and visible as dark lines in the dried specimens.
It has the same nodose and scaly root-stock, dark and polished stalk, glaucescent frond and mucronulate pinnules.
The terminal pinna of the frond and the terminal segments of the pinnae are considerably longer than the others.
These auricles are scantily developed in small fronds; but in larger ones they are more or less prominent, making the base of the frond either cordate or hastate.
In a frond nine inches long there are about thirty primary pinnae on each side, and in one of the middle pinnae about ten oblong-ovate obtuse pinnately-incised pinnules on each side.
Ragiopteris onocleoides of Presl is founded on a young fertile frond of this species placed with a sterile one of what Milde judges to be a monstrous form of Aspidium Filix-mas.
The species vary in form from a simple and reniform frond an inch or two in diameter to others with ample tripinnate and even quadripinnate fronds.
It occurs in almost all places where the plant is common, is often produced from root-stocks which bear also normal fronds, and presents all gradations from the usual sterile frond to the proper fertile one.
The margin of the frond is gently undulating or entire, rarely incised.
The frond is about half an inch wide, and though really umbilicate and subinfundibuliform, does not at first sight appear so, being much more expanded on one side of the centre than on the other.
Frond divided into numerous strap-shaped, truncated segments, of various widths; it attains a height of several inches.
The frond is more or less orbicular, or rather is composed of more or less orbicular or reniform folds, one over another, and attached as it were to a common centre.
Frond umbilicate, irregularly infundibuliform, spaces elongated, narrow, margins subdenticulate; interspaces as wide as the spaces.
Frond wholly divided into narrow ligulate, dichotomous, bi or multiserial branches; no vibracula.
The seed of this and some other species of Fern is so minute (one frond producing more than a million) as not to be visible to the naked eye.
Possibly they had wandered, for the entire frond was covered with dew-drops, which was not the case with the fern that I had previously experimented on with such satisfactory results.
It thatches the sloping rocks, frond overlapping frond like roof shingles.
Instinctively dropping on my knees, I gripped an angle of the rock, curled up like a young fern frond with my face pressed against my breast, and in this attitude submitted as best I could to my thundering bath.
The flat fragrant plumes are exceedingly beautiful: no waving fern-frond is finer in form and texture.
As buttonholes, backed with a frond of maidenhair, they are charming.
Palwang gikumbitayan sa kwaknit, A palm frond on which a bat was hanging.
Ayawg ugbúsi ang lubi kay masálut, Do not remove the young frond from the coconut because it will be stunted.
Sigaun kaáyu ang langkay basta makagáay na, The dry coconut frond burns easily once it has become dry.
Sa dì pa makagilis ang lubi, piligru sa mga mananap, Before the leaflets of the coconut palm frond break apart, the plants are in danger of being eaten by harmful insects.
Nasanggì ang palwa pagtunub níya, The coconut palm frond broke off when he stepped on it.
Balikugkug ang udlut sa paku, The fern frond is curled at its tip.
Malápì nang palwa ug ímung tungtúngan, The frond will break off if you step on it.
Midalhug lang sa bakilid ang palwa nga ákung gisakyan, The coconut frond I rode on just slid down the slope.
A swivel is attached between the leader and the line which is in turn attached to a bamboo float having a coconut frond stuck into it as a marker.
A1; a] remove the leaflets from a palm frond with a bladed tool.
But in Anthoceros, while he recognised the antheridia he was not clear as to the sunken archegonia, and regarded the capsules as arising by impregnation of unrecognisable spots on the young frond or thallus.
Seeing that the female organs (spores) arise on the frond at a much later stage of development, and long after the pro-embryo has died away, the function of the spermatozoids is far from evident.
Spray and frond did not submit more passively to the fall than did the hare; in the end he was as completely hidden as a sheep in a drift.
Half-way in the descent she suddenly turned her mask and scrutinised the ground in the hope of catching the hare with head raised watching her retreat; but bush, rock, and frond alone met her roving eyes.
It was divided once only--into simple leaflets--while the fully-developed frond of the matured plant is one of the most highly subdivided our islands can produce.
In ferns it is likewise of frequent occurrence, markedly so in Scolopendrium D'Urvillei, in which plant every gradation from a simple oblong frond to an exceedingly divided one may be found springing from the same rhizome at the same time.
Portion of a frond of Pteris quadriaurita, with an adventitious bud, the form of the constituent foliage of which is very different from that of the parent frond.
Ordinary frond and forked and crested varieties of the same, the crest arising from the inordinate development of the margins of the pinnules.
Though these plants are said to have no leaves, they consist almost entirely of a kind of leafy stem, called a frond or thallus, the branches of which are called podetia (see a in figs.
Higher and higher mounted the flaming wheel of the sun above the roll of those golden plains; and sheeny winged birds, flashing from frond to frond, seemed to echo in their gladsome piping the exaltation which thrilled through his own heart.
Farther back, where the higher lands arose from the swamp, could be discerned the graceful frond of white pines and hemlock, and the sturdy tops of Norways and spruce.
Ant vat if you do not find your frond zee captain of zee steamer?
Each frond is composed of slender interwoven fibres with club-shaped filaments passing vertically to the surface.
The tetraspores are in clusters which are scattered over the frond or on its leaflets.
In the genus Stilophora the root is discoid; the frond cylindrical, hollow, and branched; and the spores arranged in clusters over the surface.
The spores are arranged like minute necklaces, and are contained in sessile conceptacles either on the midrib of the frond or on leaflets that grow from the midrib.
Chordariaceae--Frond gelatinous or cartilaginous, composed of interlacing vertical and horizontal filaments.
Their spores are superficial, either covering the whole surface of the frond or collected into indefinite cloudy patches.
Its frond is flat and membranaceous, more or less divided into lobes, without veins, and rather obscurely divided into concentric zones.
Squamariae--Frond lichen-like, rooted by under surface, composed of vertical filaments imbedded in firm gelatine.
Spores covering the whole frond or in cloud-like patches.
The root is covered with woolly fibres, and the frond is regularly forked.
The same order contains the genus Desmarestia, in which the frond is long and narrow, thread-like or flattened, with a tubular jointed thread running through it.
Lastrea and athyrium, their foliage gone, cling in silky russet knobs under the granite ledges, warm the iron-grey stone with brown and agate brightness, and promise many a beauty of unfolding frond when spring shall come again.
In localities where sago palm is available an excellent thatch is made in the ordinary Philippine fashion by sewing the spikes of the frond to a slat of bamboo.
This rattan-frond omen appears to be used very rarely.
It was performed under the auspices of Täphágan and in the following manner: The rain makers[17] each secured a frond of some palm tree and went to the bank of the stream near by.
The deities are very partial to sweet fragrances like that of the betel nut frond and of the incense and seem to be averse to strange or evil smells.
Another way is to cut the midrib in the center at the small end and tear the frond into two pieces.
Then each one stuck his frond upon the bank in a vertical position and went his way, certain that rain would follow.
While performing the invocation and the sacred dance on the occasion of a greater sacrifice, he always carries, one in each hand, a parted palm frond with the spikes undetached.
The rattan-frond omen is taken to determine either the success of a prospective attack or the suitability of a new site for a house or farm.
It is found around the frond bases and after being thoroughly dried, is kept with the flint and steel in a special bamboo or rattan receptacle.
Mikashshah," the thick part of a midrib of a palm-frond soaked for some days in water and beaten out till the fibres separate.
As he squatted beneath a banana plant to take snuff came a squawk and the banana eater—for it appeared to be the same one—alighted on a frond near to him.
