scolopen’- 
drium. 
CRYPTOGAMIA. FILICES. Asplenium. 
which would refer it to the Pteris. It appears, however, from 
Hedwig’s microscopical dissections, that the anthers are fou 
upon the mid-rib, and that circumstance is I think sufficient to 
determine that the rows of capsules more properly belong to that 
than to the edge of the leaf, notwithstanding Hedwig himself 
has determined it to belong to the genus Acrostichum. See 
Pl. XIII. fig. 9, 10, 11 
Groves and = heaths. [St. Faith’s Newton woods, near 
Nor wey Common in Herts, and frequent in the North. 
© RD.—At Ha insford, ‘Norfolk. Mr. Crowe. In lanes 
about daca Park near Birming ham. | P. July—Sept. 
ASPLE’NIUM. Capsules disposed in straight and 
neatly parallel lines on the under surface of 
eat. 
(1) Leaf simple. 
A. Leaves heart-tongue-shaped ; very entire: stalks hairy. 
Cart.—Tourn. 31G$-Blackw. 138—Bull. 167-Bolt. 11-Gars, 
340-Trag. 540-Fuchs. 294—F. By iti. 756—Clus. ii. 213. 
2-Dod. 467. 1-Cam. epit. 579-Wale.—Lab. obs. 408. 3- 
Ger, em. 1138. 1—Park. 1046, 1._f. 2-H. ox. xiv. 1. 1- 
Lon. 1. 224. S-Matth. 831. 
Leaf-stalks rising from the root, about 2 inches came Leaf 
strap-shaped but rounded and hollowed at the base, from 8 to 12 
inches long, or more ; 14 to 23 inches broad, the shortest leaves 
the broadest. F. rasctific écations.-in lines, slanting upwards from 
the mid-rib, but not in contact with it. 
Spleenwort or Harts-tongue. M oist shady rocks, mouths of 
wells, old walls, and in the fissures of rocks. On the tops of 
most of the high mountains in Yorkshire. Curr. P. Aug. 5 a 
Var. 2. Leaves curled and jagged at the edge. 
7. By Mis 157s 9; 
[ Near a petrify ing g spring; by the side of a rivulet at the bot- 
Di 
_ tom of Garn Dingle, 5 miles from Denbigh. Mr. GrirritH.] 
Var.3. Leaves with many clefts at the end. 
Clus. 11. 213. 3—Dod. 467. 2-Lob. obs. 469, 13 ic. ii. 805. 2 
-Ger. em. 1138. 2-Park. 1047. 1-F. B. iti. 757. 2-H 
OX. XIV..1. row 1, 2—Ger. 967.2. 
Phyllitis multifida. R. Syn. ie ‘ ae a lane near Swanelings 
not many miles from Southampton «CMe r Bromham, 
growing in the mouth of a well very fod shaded, Mr, Norais-] 
Var. 4. Leaves with clefts at the edges, 
Tourn, 45.4 
