CH.UDB* TICKET US JAMA!CEM?I, 4n 



Browne calls this the smaller viaiden-hair with raJlated l)ranclie.';. This eletyaat 

 little plant rises bv a simple stal'c to tlie height of six or eigtit iiiclies, and then tliviiles 

 into five or mofe simple braiitjjes, disposed in a radiated expanded f'oria; which are 

 sustained, as it were, by a few simple leaves, piacetl in the manner of an ureibrella or 

 common cup under their insertions.- The leaves are small, and disposed in a pinnatetl 

 prUer. Hrvn'iic. 



2. SERRULATUM. SERRATE-LEAVED, 



Trichomanes majus, tiigrum pin-m's Icviter dcntatis trapczii figur'a.^ 

 Sloa.ie, V. 1, p. 81, t 25, f. 2. 

 Fronds hi-pii\nate, pinnules deltoid-oblong, serrate ; fructifications so,1itary 

 superior. 

 This rises about eight inches ; the foetstailk black and shinmg, sometimes hairy, -nd 

 Jtiree inches long; the pinnides are alternate, very close, trapezium-shri])t-.l. (iari>- 

 coloured, without prickles It has some small jags on the edges, wldi ii, on the iMjper 

 side, turns into a ferruginous welt of seed, wnen it does not apjiear serrated. It grcvf 

 n the banks of the Rio D'Oro, and otht^r rocky, inland, woody, parts. Hloane. 



3. PlJMIl.OM. DWARF. 



.'Minmum ercctum simpli.r, Joliis trapeziofdiius sub-imbricati's. 

 Browne, p. 87. Ad. 1. 

 Frond pinnate ; stipe cajiillary ; piHoas alternate, roundish-serrulate, the up 

 permost larger, trapezium-shaped ; -frucdficatious interrupted 

 The small, erect, undivided,- adiantiim, or maiden-hair, seldom rises above two or 

 sthree inches from the root; its leaves and stalk are very delicate, aiid the fructifications 

 ijut iti\y- It grows chielly in dry and rocky places. Browne. 



4. MACROPIIYLLIJM. LARGE-LEAFE-D. 



.Tricho)anes majus nigrum, pmnis trapeziijigura lafis.<:imis fenuihits, 



Bloane, v 1, [>. 81. Simplex adit vix divaiaii, cculc tcreti, foiiis 



umplts triangidaribus inipetiolatis. Browne, p. 87. Ad. 2, t. 33^ 



f. 1. 



The iar<Te-leafed undivided maiden-hair grows chic^.y in moist and shady places ; 



its stalk is'seldom branched or divided, and its leaves are' commonly from iie to twf 



judies in length, and aoout one and a quarter in breadth. Browne, 



5. DELTOIDEUM. DELTOID- LEAVED. 



Frond pinnate; pin nas alternate, dehoid-obtuse, tlie uppermost triangular; 

 fructifications continued abo%'e and in tront. Sw. 



Thefolloxeing have decompound f rends : 



6. ViL'.OSUlf. HAIRY. 



/ldia,nlum nigrum maximum, non ramomyn, ptnni.t crebris, mnjori-. 

 bus, crassis, et trapezii in modum .figuratis. Sloanc, v. 1, p. &3, 

 t. 55, f. I. Simplicitcr ramiiSum,Joliis majoribus, caule hirsuta-^ 

 Browne, p. 87. Ad. 4. 

 Fronds bi-pinnute; pinnas rhombed, -fructifying befurc and without; stipe 



villous. 



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