136 
POLYPODIUM FILIX MAS. MALE POLYPODY, Or, 
COMMON MALE FERN 
S T NO NTMJ. Filix. Fbarm, Lond, "^ Edinh, Filix non 
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'ramofa dentata. Bauh, Fin, p. 358. Filix vulgb mas dida, five 
non rarnofa. J. Baiih, Hifl, vol. iii. /. 737. Filix mas nou 
ramofa pinnulis " latis denfis minutim dentatis. Gerard, E?nac, p. 
F 
g. riiix mas Yuig 
xis. Park, I'heat, p, 1036. Rait Hift, p 
Synof). p. 120. Polypodium, pinnis pinnatis, obtufis, den 
tatis. Hal, Stirp, Helv, n, 1 701 • • Bolton, Filices, Brit, p, 44 
43 
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Creditur effe ur^^'s Diofcorid, et 'Theoph 
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Clafs Cryptogamia. • Ord, Filices. Lin, Gen, Plant, 1 1 79 
FJf.Gen, Ch, FruBiJic, m pundis fubrotundis fparfis per difcum 
frondis 
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Sp, Ch, P.frondibus bipinnatis : pinnis obtufis crenulatis,ftiplte paleaceo. 
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THE root is large, long, firm, and covered with thick brov/n 
^ placed in an imbricated ord^er, and furnifhed with many long 
black'tough fibres: the general leaves are from one to four feet ia 
length, the ribs of F^ich ^yhen young are thickly befet with browp 
tough tranfparent fcales : the figure of the whole leaf is lance-fhaped, 
broadeft in the middle, and gradually decreafes to each extremity, 
terminating above in an acute point; the partial, or fecond leaves, 
from fifteen to forty pairs, remote on the lower part, growing 
gradually nearer upwards, and running together at the top : the lobes 
are from feven to fifteen pairs^ which are largefl at the bottom, and 
regularly decreafe towards the top, where they unite into a point; 
each lobe is of an oval 'ihape, and a little indented at its upper ex- 
tremity : the feed-veifels are placed in two rows oh the back of the 
lobes, in number from three to fix, of a kidney-lhape, and covered 
h a pellide; they are at firft white, and afterwards chang 
bluilh 
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