Half-witted people, only, will suppose I mean grate, for the most obtuse nincompoop must know that anybody can become a grate man by going into the stove business; but to develop yourself into a real bonâ-fide great man, like GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN or DANIEL PRATT, requires much study and a persistent effort.

Pinnæ sub-opposite, divergent, narrowly oblong, obtuse; base truncate, cordate or clasping, occasionally auricled; lower pinnæ often with orbicular or cordate pinnules.

PARSLEY FERN Cryptográmma acrostichòides Sterile and fertile fronds very dissimilar; segments of the fertile, linear and pod-like; of the sterile, ovate-oblong, obtuse, and toothed.

Pinnæ oblong-ovate, obtuse, incised or pinnátifid into oblong, toothed lobes.

RUBÉLLUM has the sori distinct even when mature; its pinnules stand at a wide angle from the rachis of the pinna and are strongly toothed or pinnatifid with obtuse teeth.

Lobes oblong, obtuse, minutely toothed, each bearing two rows of oblong or linear fruit-dots.

Lobes obtuse, but appear acute when their margins are reflexed over the sori.

Segments oblong, obtuse, entire or toothed.

Pinnæ lanceolate, acuminate, the lowest pair deflexed and standing forward; cut into oblong, obtuse segments.

Pinnules oblong, obtuse, serrate at the apex, obscurely so at the sides, the basal incisely lobed, distant, the upper confluent.

Divisions oblong, obtuse, finely serrate or cut-toothed, those nearest the rachis sometimes separate.

Obtuse Woodsia.

Pinnæ triangular-ovate, obtuse, lobed, the lobes few and nearly entire.

Pinnæ rather remote, triangular-ovate or oblong, pinnately parted into obtuse, oblong, toothed segments.

Pinnæ remote at the base, roundish-ovate, very obtuse with a few crenate lobes.

Pinnse triangular-oblong, obtuse, pinnatifid.

Segments ovate or oblong, obtuse, crenate, the teeth or margin nearly always reflexed.

Like the obtuse Woodsia this fern has no joint near the base of the stipe, but is much smaller and has several points of difference.

Primary pinnæ in outline like the frond; the secondary, pinnatifid into oblong and obtuse, cut-toothed lobes.

Pinnæ cut into oblong, obtuse lobes.

Pinnæ lanceolate, pinnatifid with oblong, obtuse divisions.

Ultimate segments more obtuse than in type; has but very slight tendency towards the spatulate form of the two previous varieties.

From two to four times longer than broad and with sides nearly parallel. OBTUSE.

BARTRAM, the lime-burner, an obtuse, middle-aged clown in Ethan Brand by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

And underneath that servile gentleness of hers lay an intelligence even more obtuse than her father's, a mind filled with nothing but piety and the religious phrases in which she had been educated.