The leaves are in two horizontal rows, along branchlets that commonly are less than eight years old, forming handsome plumes, pinnated like the fronds of ferns.

The plumes are exceedingly beautiful; no waving fern-frond in shady dell is more unreservedly beautiful in form and texture, or half so inspiring in color and spicy fragrance.

Nephròdium marginàle Fronds from a few inches to three feet long, ovate-oblong, somewhat leathery, smooth, twice pinnate.

Very slowly he limped across the open space, crying with the pain he felt at every step; but when he reached the bed of ferns he all at once saw, sitting among the tall fronds on a stone, a strange-looking woman in a green dress, who was gazing very steadily at him with eyes full of love and compassion.

Sometimes the prothallus itself buds directly from the frond without spores, for which process the term apóspory is used.

none spreads out a dense uniform roofing of metal-blue fronds like the date-oases of Biskra or Tozeur.

A handsome form discovered in Vermont in 1900 by Mrs. Horton and named Hortonæ (also called incisum) has plume-like fronds with the pinnæ cut into oblique lobes, which are coarsely serrate.

Place your fronds between newspaper sheets and lay "dryers" over them (blotting paper or other absorbent paper).

All that is left of the revolt now is the song that you hear on the twangling nachettes, the baby-banjoes, of a moonlight night under the banana fronds at the back of Funchal.

Collect the spore-fronds towards the end of summer, just as the spore-cases begin to open.

Sterile and fertile fronds unlike; sterile ones nine to twelve inches tall, deltoid-ovate.

The fertile pinnæ have a way of turning their faces upward toward the apex of the frond for more light.

A PEACEFUL SUBMARINE Under the green sea, in the total darkness of the great depths and the yellowish-green of the shallows of the oceans, with the seaweeds waving their fronds about their barnacle-encrusted timbers and the creatures of the deep playing in and about the decks and rotted rigging, lie hundreds of wrecks.