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 Rh Menyanthes indica, ''Curt. Mag. t. 658, and perhaps Epimedium alpinum, Engl. Bot. t.'' 438.

6. . A Frond. In this the stem, leaf and fructification are united, or, in other words, the flowers and fruit are produced from the leaf itself, as in the Fern tribe, Scolopendrium vulgare, ''Engl. Bot. t. 1150, Polypodium vulgare, t. 1149, Aspidium, t. 1458—1461, Osmunda regalis, t.'' 209, &c. It is also applied to the Lichen tribe, and others, in which the whole plant is either a crustaceous or a leafy substance, from which the fructification immediately proceeds. Linnæus considered Palm-trees as fronds, so far correctly as that they have not the proper stem of a tree, see p. 58; but they are rather perhaps herbs whose stalks bear the fructification. It must however be observed that the deposition of wood in ferns, takes place exactly as in palms.

The term frond is now used in the class Cryptogamia only.