ACROGENS. 24 LYCOPODALS, 
3. L. rubrum Chamisso—L. catharticum Hooker. (YaTUM CONDENADO 
Fig. 47. 
Stem ascending, dichotomous ; branches four-cornered 
leaves closely imbricated, ovate, acuminate, sti 
keeled, ciliated, with the spore-cases in their axils. 
Habitat, Equatorial America, on mountains. 
Quality. Hypercathartic, z ; 
Uses. In elephantiasis, teprosy. A medicine of great activity 
THE FILICAL ALLIANCE; or, FERNS. 
(VOR b Th)~ 
ApiaNtuM. Jinneeus. 
Spore-cases in sori, hidden beneath rounded, reflexed, 
marginal, distinct, indusia with a vertical ring. 
1, A. Capillus Veneris Linneus. (MAIDENHAIR.) 
Fig. 48. Bs 
Leaf doubly compound; leaf- 
lets alternate, wed. 
shaped on capil 
stalks; indusia oblon,; 
AY Habitat. Moist rocks and old 
, 4 walls, 
Yj Quality. Rhizome slightly as- 
Ng tringent, fragrant when dry; 
9 somewhat emetic. 
is Uses, With syrup and 
Pa flowers, makes bad capil- 
laire. a 
2. A. pedatum Linneus. Fig. 49. 
Leaves pedate: divisions pinnate ; leaflets halved, oblong, 
lunate, cut at the upper edge. 
Habitat. North America. 
Quality. Sweet, slightly styptic, and fragrant. 
Uses. With syrup and orange flowers, makes the best capillaire. 
Aspipium. Swartz. 
Spore-cases in roundish scattered dorsal sori, covered by Cg 
- anorbicular : y 
or kidney- 
shaped in- 
dusium,with 
 & vertical 
ring. 
1. A, Filiamas 
Swartz — 
Nephrodi- 
um Filix mas. (Mae Vani) Fig. 50. 
ee 47.—Piece of Lycopodium rubrum; 48, Leaflet of Adiantum Capillu neris. 
_ 49. Leaflet of Adiantum pedatum, a little magnified ; 50. Pinna of ‘Adi odie, oe ne 
