The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . Aus-tralia and Tasmania. [R. H.] DAMSON. A small austere variety ofplum. .-, BITTER, or MOUNTAIN. Sima-ruba amara. DANiEA. A remarkable genus of fernsof the danasineous division of the Marat-tiacece. The species are not very numerous,and are all South American or West IndianThey have large woody rhizomes, and pin-nate rarely simple fleshy coriaceous fronthe pinna of which are usually articulated,The fertile fronds are more or less con-tracted. The sori are very rema
The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . Aus-tralia and Tasmania. [R. H.] DAMSON. A small austere variety ofplum. .-, BITTER, or MOUNTAIN. Sima-ruba amara. DANiEA. A remarkable genus of fernsof the danasineous division of the Marat-tiacece. The species are not very numerous,and are all South American or West IndianThey have large woody rhizomes, and pin-nate rarely simple fleshy coriaceous fronthe pinna of which are usually articulated,The fertile fronds are more or less con-tracted. The sori are very remarkablethey are linear, occupying the wholelength of the veins, and crowded so asto cover the whole under-surface of thedivisions of the fertile fronds. The spore-cases are consolidated into a fleshy mass,which represents an involucre, each fleshycase at length opening at the top by asmall round pore, so that the contiguousfructiferous ridges appear to be eachpierced by a double line of small some species represented by B. nodosa,which has the joints of the fronds thick-ened, the sori are affixed to the veins by. Dansea alata (fructification). their whole length ; in others, as in , they are said to be affixedonly by the centre. [T. M.] DAN^ACE^E. The name of a naturalorder of ferns, also called :which see. DAN^OPSIS. A doubtful genus of ferns,separated from Dancea, on the ground ofits having anastomosing veins. Nothingdefinite, however, appears to be known ofthe plant. [T. MJ DANCING GIRLS. Mantisia sanatoria. DANDELION. Taraxacum Bens Leonis,the Dent de Lion. DANEWORT. Sambucus Ebulus. SS3 QTfyz Erea£ttri) af SSotaitg. [dael D ANGLE-BERRY. An American namefor Gaylussacia frondosa. DAXTHOXIA. A genus of grasses be-longing to the tribe Avenece, distinguished•by the glumes being two or many-flower-ed ; the outer pale smooth and coriace-ous below, many or sometimes nine-nerved,emarginate at the apex, with an interme-diate broad tooth, wh
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