798 | ORD. LI. Filices. FOLYPODIUM VUUGARZ. 
Cryptogamia Filices. Zin. Gen. Plant. 1179. 
Gen. Che Fametif, in punctis subrotundis, sparsis per discum frondis, 
Sp. Ch. Pp. ‘frondibus pinnatifidis: pinnis oblongis subserratis 
obtusis, radice Squatata. een 
ROOT perennial, creeping, in an horizontal Fats Gan some- 
scart iekesethan a goose’s quill, externally yellowish, internally 
greenish, covered with brown scales, and,beset with small.tubercles, 
from »which issue: numerous fibres. Stalks or, stipites smooth, 
tapering, grooved’on the’ upper side.. Frondes or leaves from 
half'a foot'to a foot ih length, pinnated; pinnz oblong, shghtly 
serrated, obtuse... Capsules placed in a row on each side of the 
midrib of the leaf: they are of a roundish form, and granulated 
appearance, furnished. with. footstalks, and opening horizontally! 
into two hemispheres, which are surrounded Aye an. Siastie iii 
Seeds numerous, oval or reniform, yellow. , 
It grows on old walls, stumps and’ roots of fees ook various 
shady places, fructifying from June till October, . 
“The leaves of Poly pody. havea; weak ungrateful smell, and a 
nauseous sweet taste, leaving a kind of . roughness and slight 
acrimony in the mouth. “thar give out their smell and. taste, 
together with a yellow colour, both, to water and rectified spirit: 
the spirituous tincture is sweeter than the watery; but i in inspis- 
sation 1 its Sweetness, is, in great part destroyed, _or covered by the 
= matter; be spirittious extract, 4 Chvehenser: observes, being 
to the taste on Lou and sWhatrid, with very little 
sweetness, while the w: tely" extra reins the full sweetness: of 
the ‘polypody.’ 3 ates wysee € COR ages 
“The! root of the Polypédium itdouw? “or those ite crow on 
the oak, has been most esteemed for medicinal tise, didhdeh! No just 
Feason éan be’ assigned: for this preferetice, : ‘By the: lineients it'was 
ee “Laie. z Cy Gmgin edad to obtain sugar | from ‘hi rool, va i widhone’s success. 
See Dissert. ‘Considderatio cy u licéum. p. 38." 
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