ACROSS CLUES:

1. Typical fruit of the Apiaceae (Umbelliferae).
3. Second highest hierarchal category under the kingdom Plantae.
6. Fern (genus) with marginal indusium formed by revolute leaf margin.
8. Plant (division) with the terms frond, sorus, indusium and stipe.
12. Latinized name of the "father of taxonomy."
17. Typical fruit of the pea family (Fabaceae).
19. Plants without xylem tissue (not included in Jepson Flora).
20. Fern (genus) with reniform indusium.
24. Sound of a vowel with accent mark slanting to the left (\).
25. Plant (subdivision) with jointed stems & small, scale-like leaves at nodes.
26. Originally described Muilla clevelandii (Wats.) Hoover in different genus.
27. Sound of a vowel with accent mark slanting to the right (/).
28. Pinnate leaf with terminal unpaired leaflet.

DOWN CLUES:

2. Technical name for a superior ovary.
4. Swedish botanist Carl von ____ devised binomial system of nomenclature.
5. Name of short (small) fruit of the mustard family (Brassicaceae).
7. Officially supplied description of Pinus jeffreyi Grev. in Murr. in a journal.
9. Pinnate leaf with all leaflets in pairs.
10. Unofficially supplied original description of Pinus jeffreyi Grev. in Murr.
11. Changed original name of Muilla clevelandii (Wats.) Hoover to present.
13. Name applied to a leaf surface that appears wrinkled.
14. Ovary position where sepals, petals & stamens arise from hypanthium rim.
15. Division of low, creeping vascular plants with small, scale-like leaves.
16. Fern (genus) with peltate indusium.
18. Genus of smallest flowering plants (and smallest fruits) on earth.
20. Highest hierarchal category under the kingdom Plantae.
21. Fern (genus) with naked indusium.
22. Technical name for an inferior ovary.
23. Plant (division) with seeds borne on the surface of woody cone scales.

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