BFSS (backlit fern spore structures)
Monday, 31 October 2011
Also from Saturday’s walk….
New term for me: those unfurling fiddleheads have a fifty-cent name—circinate vernation. Vernation comes from a root word referring to springtime, and also to the arrangement of the growth-tip tissue—in this case curled in on itself, or circinate.
Ho hum. No way to work this into conversation….