748 CRYPTOGAMIA. FILICES. Pteris. 
Fructificatious, whilst immature, in short indistinct lines or 
dots. It is therefore, whilst young, an AspLenium. Bott. p.7+ 
and i2. From 2 to 3 inches high. Leaves mostly in pairs; 
eine, -shaped, on long ot rising from the root. 
Clefts of rocks and old walls. ‘Tops.o oh a, in — 
on Ingleborough, Yorkshire, and above Ambleside, Westmo 
land. [Rocks on the south side of Blackford Hill, plentiful. 
Mr. Brown. Rocks in Edinburgh Park. Dr. Hore. | PB 
(2) Leaves wing-cleft. 
uven’se. A. Wings opposite, united, and very entire at the base 5 
blunt, hairy underneath, See Potyroptum ilvense. 
PTERIS. Capsules disposed in a line under the 
teflected edge of the leaf. 
cris‘pa. - P, Leaves more than doubly compound : Jeafits alternate, 
roundish, cut. 
Bolt. 7—F 1. dan. 400-H. ox. xiv. 4.4, and 27—Pluk, 3. 25 
nd S—F. B. iit. 743-Hy 0x6 Xive 5. 25. 
Lea foal waved, g Fructifications i in lines along the 
under margin of the sided is rolled back upon them, as 
ge; those of the fertile ber much narrower, strap of 
speech’ and entire. Capsules surrounded with an 
elastic ring ; but Osmunda and Ophioglossum have no such rings 
ern Cr; risped Fern. Parsley Fern. Stone Brakes. 
a 
Woopw.—In Rutland. Mr. Jacxson.—Shap, very com 
also Tenterfell, near Nonkt Mr. Gouven.—Cader Idris. Fie. 
tifications ripe in ee Mr. Grirritx. | 
Var. 2. Leaves c 
son i See 2 varieties with curled leavéts the 
« Jack 
one curled like Parsley, the other like the flow ering part of Os- 
munda regalis, 
aquili‘na. P. Leaves more than doubly compound : fenfits winged : 
wings spear-shaped ; the lowermost wing-cleft; the 
upper ones snaaller. 
Ger. 969. 2-Bull, 207—Belt. 10-Pluk. 182, 1-Blackav. 325 
—Fuchs. 590, misprinted 560-Dody 462. 2-Trag. 542- 
Matth. 1291-—Gars. 27 °-Lob. obs. 473+ 2. ile ie S12. 2 
