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Show The 526 The root is a gentle purge. 1. Common Polypody. Polypodium vulgare. GCG B Jerratis. ‘This has been fuppofed a v Englifh Maidenhair. : ; anes vulgare. PL 4 « 4 The root is a tuft of fibres, The leaves are ntimerous, four inches long, narrow, and beautifully pinnated: their colour. is adark green ;,.and. they are glofly, IIL, The ftalk is black. SPLEEN WOR ROUGH "Fhe flowers and feeds are brown. ASPER A. BONCHI? is the bafé of the foorftalk. HE leaf is continued in {mall fegments to The leaves that have ripe feeds curl up. It is common on damprocks. C. Bauhine calls it Trichomanesfive polytrychum officinarum. Ge The feeds\are yery..numerous, and browns and the leaves ‘on which they ate placed curl up. It is: common on heaths. C. Bauhinecalls it Lonchitis afpera minor, Rough Spleenwort. Lonchitis afpera vulgaris. LLG4 3 fibres. The root is compofed of innumerable ; and The leaves are very long, and narrow ‘into fine gre divided down to. the ‘middle rib fegments : the colourisaidark green. middle; The fegments are longifh’ in the Wehave-one- other fpecies. 1. Rough Spleenwort; with indented fegments, Lonchitis afpera major. mountains. to andfmaller to the bafe of the footftalk, as alfo Qn. the Welch the point. Gu Eo SMOOTH e AS U oN £ Ss DN SPLEEN WO-:R tT. Inf NIU, The root is a tuft of fibres. Theleaves rife in great clufters ; and they-are five inches long, narrow, and flightly divided, or finuated at the edge. The fegments are obtufe, and not exactly op- The forefide of the leaf is a dark green; the backfide is covered with a brown powder. We have it on old walls. C. Bauhine calls it Ceterach officinarum. It is fuppofed a remedy for obftructions of the FORKED aN CipmwM ae UL said V. FERN. FILET compofed of many pairs of diftiné pinne. PRUE leaf has a naked footftalk 5 and is i are placed in dots. Dwarf Sea-Fern. Chamafilix maritima. ¢ The root is a tuft of black fibres. The leaves are numerous, and three inches long: theirftalk is black. The pinne are of a deep green on the forefide, andpale behind, with the feed in dots. 8 VIL MAIDEN HAIR. ACROSPTICU™M: HE leaves8 are veryJ fmall, and have a long footftalks: f : they they are are divided divi i into forked f feements ; T and the feeds: ftandin round dots, P : j tie ok Fork ‘ at Forked Maidenhair, . Acrpiicum vulgare: PL74n7 Y The root confifts of numerous fibres conn ected e a4 {mall head. i . The,ftalks are three inches high; and at the top cach divides into.a few flat and forked feg- G “Ran . ' ments, forming a kind ofleaf: ‘this is of a pale green: the ftalk is black at.the bottom, pale upwards; and the feed are placed in round dots. Wehave it on damp Pots . 4 i i Filix ili: -fexatilis. C.Bauhine calls it Others, Adiantumfurcatum ; The feeds . We haveit on old walls at the fea-fide C. Bauhinecalls ic Filicu'a maritima. Wehave one other fpecies. pedieMe e e peaics alpin alpin : filix 1. Dwarf Rock Fern, Chame laris rubre foliis.. The fegments Jaggee “USS MALE) ALAA #1 VIII. FERN. AAS HEleaf is pinnated, and the pinn@ are’ again divided down toithe rib into oblong fegments The feeds are placed on the hinder part of the pinnae in a double feries of roundifh {pots. 1. Common Male Fern. The root is thick, irregular, and rough on DWARF Wehave three other fpecies. Dey ; 1. Branched Englifh Maidenhair, Trichomenes The rib, or ftalk, in this is ramofum. : green. |2: Jagged-leaved Englifh Maidenhair, Trichomanes foliis eleganter incifis. ‘The pinnz'cut deeply, 3. Moonwort:leaved Englifh Maidenhair, dianium nigrum foliis lunarie. The pinn rounded. es Filix mas vulgaris. DO Viz ? fpleen. pofite to ohe another. Go VIL M. The fegments are cbtufe ; and the flowers and T HEleafis fimply, and not deeply, divided, mafs. continued a in leaf the of feeds cover the back Commonfmooth Spleenwost. Afplenium vulgare. LCF 4, "6 ae leaf is pinnated ; and the pinnz are rounded, placed regularly, beautiful, and diftin@i ufe. i 3. Broad Polypody, Poly; the tops of the Welch mouttains. eens GnoBacgedh P. nialts, yellow ifh brown. placed there in roundfpots ofa 1 under hedges. Ic is common in wood C. Bauhinecalls it Pol) “Us TRICHOMANES. but is really a diftinét fpecies. 2. Laciniated Polypody of Wales, Cainbro Britanicum pinnulis ac Bowers and feeds are EN: ENGLISH MAIDENHAITIR, 1. Serrated Polypody; P clypedium jutt The root is long and thick ; and creeps at the furface. The plant is a foot h h. The footftalk is of a purplith brown. n on the forefide, The leaf is of a deep BRE TRYS H--H # RB AL Ge We have three other fpecies. 4 and paleg behind ; and the The; 8 ROT SERB AL: the furface. The leaf is two feet long, the rib brown, and the pinnze of a pale green. The feeds lie on the back in fpots of a yellowith brown. It is commonin woods and under hedges. C, Bauhine calls it Filix non ramofa dentata. We have eight other fpecies. 2. Prickly, auriculated Male Fern, Fel aon ramofa pinnulis latis auriculatis Jpinofis. 3. Narrow-leaved prickly Male Fern, / leata major pinnulis auriculatis crebrioribus Solis anguftioribus. 4. Dwarf prickly Male Fern, Filix lonchitidi afJinis. A {mall plant notfive inches high. 5. Broad-leaved prickly Male Fern, Fitix mas aculeata foliis expanfis mufeofa lanugine a6. Male Fern, with thin fet, deeply indented leaves, Filix ‘mas non ramofa pinnulis anguftis raris profunde dentatis, 7. Creeping Water Fern, Filix minor paluftris repens dryopteris authorum. The leaf very thin. 8. Pale-ftalked Fern, with drooping pinnz, lix minor pediculo pallidiore alis inf - us deorfumfpettantibus. 9s Male Stone Fern, Filix pumila faxatilis. Tt re- fembles the dryspteis, but is fmaller. |