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POLYPODIUM VULGARE. COMMON POLYPODY. 
SYNONYMA. Polypodium. Pharm. Dale. 63. Alfon.i. 496. 
Rutty. 405. Lewis. 519. Edinb. New Difpenf. 259. Bergius. 
844. Murray. v.449.. Gerard. Emac. 1132. Raii. Hift..137. 
Synop. 117. Polypodium foliis pinnatis lanceolatis radice {quamata. 
Hall, Hiff. n. 1696. Polypoditim vulgare. Bauh. Pin. 359. 
Park. Theat. 1039.. Hudfon. Ang. 387. Withering. Bot. Arr. 
ii. 55. tc. Curtis. Lond, Bolton, Fil. Brit. t. 18. 
-Cryptogamia Filices.. Lin. Gen. Plant. 1179. 
Gen. Ch. Fruétif. in pundiis fubrotundis, fparfis per difcum frondis. 
Sp. Ch. P. frondibus pinnatifidis : pinnis oblongis fubferratis obtufis, 
- radice {quamata. 
ROOT perennial, creeping, in an horizontal direction, fomewhat 
thicker than a goofe’s quill, externally yellowith, internally greenifh, 
covered with brown feales, and befet with fmall tubercles, from which 
iffue numerous ‘fibres. Stalks or ftipites {mooth, tapering, grooved on 
the upper fide. Frondes or leaves from half a foot to a foot in length, 
pinnated ; pinnz oblong, flightly ferrated, obtufe. Capfules placed 
in a row on each fide of the midrib of the leaf: they are of a roundifh 
form, and granulated appearance, furnithed with footftalks,and opening 
horizontally into two hemilpheres, which are furrounded by an elaftic 
ring. Seeds numerous, oval or reniform, yellow. 
It grows on old walls, ftumps and roots of trees, and various fhady | 
places, fructifying from June till October. 
