CRYPTOGAMIA, FILICES. Acrostichum. 
463-Lob. obs. 474. 1, and 23 it. i. 813-Ger. em. 1131- 
Park, 1038-Ger. 97 1-H. ox. xiv. 4, row 3. 1-Gars. 273 
—R. Syn. ed. i. 1. 2. at p. 1. 
Capsules opening vertically. Mr. Scare From 2 to 4 
fect high, of a pleasant transparent green. Leaves doubly 
eg Leafs strap-spear-shaped, blunt, finely but indistinctly 
ae the lower and younger ones often lobed at the base. 
ry 
places and boggy marshes. {About Cosgarne and Marazion in 
the mouths of old mines. Mr. Warr. Bogs near Yarmouth. 
. Woopw. St. Faith’s, Newton Bogs, near Norwich. Mr. 
Crowe. Chartley Moss, Staffordsh. Hon. Mr. Bacorr. Moist 
hedges, New Forest, Hants. This plant, though before not to 
be found for many miles around Birmingham, lately appeared on 
a butt on Mosely Common, artificially made with mud from 
a deep pit, in which the seeds ac polis et for a great length 
te time. st continued to flour s the butt was a pet 
(3) Leaves, some bearing fructifications. 
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sh 
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O. Leaves spear-shaped, wing-cleft; very. entire, parallel, Spi'canthus, 
unning into each other. See Buacunu M Spica 
0. Leaves more than doubly compound ; leafits Koa cris ‘pa. 
roundish, cut. See Preris crispa. 
ACROS’TICHUM. Capsules entirely covering the 
under surface of the leaf. 
(1) Leaf simply divided. 
AY Leaves naked, strap-shaped, jagged. 
Fi. Sie 60-~Leb. adv. 17.9. ic. i. 47. 1-Ger. em. 1561. 8= 
Bolt. fl. 8-Trag. 537-Lon. i, 224. 5-Ger. 343. 4- 
Park. 1045. 8—F. B. ili, 755-2. 
found in Coalbrook Dale iron works. A is the only species of an indige- 
hous vegetable which I have ever seen in a fossil state, Butit is a — 
of Virginia also, = All the other i aaiaeiens of Filices, which I 
seen on iron-stone, seem to be those of American plants. The ~ 
boiled in water is very slimy, and is used in the North of Europe to 
stiffen Hiden instead of starch. 
septentri- 
ona‘le. 
