. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. Upper pinna of NephrodiumThelypteris. LttOTOmkCEM, (GROUND-PINE FAMILY.) 911 15. CYSTOPTERIS, Bernh. Bladder Fern. Sori roundish, borne on the back of a straight ^^^- ^•i^* fork of the free veins. Indusium cup-shaped, at-tached by its base on the inner side (toward themidrib), early opening at its free, external, jagged-lobed margin, and soon withering and disappearing— Tufted ferns, with 3-3-pinnate fronds, the lobescut. Stipe continuous with root-stock. C. fragilis, L
. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. Upper pinna of NephrodiumThelypteris. LttOTOmkCEM, (GROUND-PINE FAMILY.) 911 15. CYSTOPTERIS, Bernh. Bladder Fern. Sori roundish, borne on the back of a straight ^^^- ^•i^* fork of the free veins. Indusium cup-shaped, at-tached by its base on the inner side (toward themidrib), early opening at its free, external, jagged-lobed margin, and soon withering and disappearing— Tufted ferns, with 3-3-pinnate fronds, the lobescut. Stipe continuous with root-stock. C. fragilis, L. 71 .1 to .3; root-stock hori-zontal. Fronds with long, yellow, polished stipes>oblong-lanceolate, 2-3 pinnate; pinnae and pinnulesovate-oblong, the latter irregularly pinnatifid andcut-toothed, decurrent on the marginal or winged ra-chis — Summer —. Var. teiiui§ecta. Boiss. Lobes of pinnulesnarrower, and whole plant more delicate — Alpineand subalpine Lebanon, Amanus, and northward. (a) Tip of frond of Cys-topteris fragilis, chew-ing mature fruit dots.(6) An immature Iruitdot, showing diameters. Order CXXIV. I^YCOPODIACE^, D. Family). C. (GROUND-PiNE Stems alternately or dicliotomously branched, leafy, oftendecumbent at base. Leaves persistent, (in ours) in 4 rows orspirally arranged. Sporangia (in ours) in the axils of allthe leaves of fertile branches — Low, green plants. SEIiAOIXEIiliA, Spring. Selaginella. Sporangia of two kinds on the same spike, the lower obovate-spherical, with 3-4 cells, containing 3-4, large, 3-striate spores, the upperwith single, muriculate cells, containing numerous, minute spores —Low plants, appressed to rocks with northern exposure, Fig. (in ours) 4 rows of minute leaves. S. clenticulata, L. 71 Leaves ovate, cuspidate,those of sterile flattened branches on the upper and l
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