indusia

Why it is confined to the under surface perhaps can, it being a law that in all cases it is the under surface of the leaf, or its modification, from which new growths originate, and as nature has closed indusia, how could the under surface be interior if this rule were not regularly adhered to?

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

(In Greek the word means _lip flower_, alluding to the lip-like indusia.) (1) ALABAMA LIP FERN.

The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton

Sporangia near or on the margin of the segments, the reflexed portions of which serve as indusia.

The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton

Although the genus _Polýstichum_ represents the true shield ferns, the wood ferns are also thus designated, as their indusia have nearly the shape of small, roundish shields.

The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton

It is one of our handsomest evergreen ferns and even the large sori, with their dark spore cases and white indusia, are very attractive.

The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton

In the east it is often dwarfed -- six to ten inches high, growing in tufts with stout rootstocks, having the pinnules finely toothed instead of rounded and the indusia often lunate, rarely twice as long as broad.

The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton

Pinnules toothed or entire nearly covered beneath with the large, thin, imbricated indusia which are orbicular with a narrow sinus, having the margins ragged and sparingly glanduliferous.

The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton

Habitu et colore Dicksoniis ac - cedit, sed indusia simplicia mtus dehiscentia.

Species plantarum : exhibentes plantas rite cognitas ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas 1797