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mina, 
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sie 
fra’cile. 
_ CRYPTOGAMIA. FILICES. Polypodium, 
the leaf-stalk but little, if at all scaly, the opposite leafits on the 
wings not unequal in size, and the mid-rib of the Jeafits serpen« 
tine. It agrees with it in the disposition of the fructifications, 
and in the serratures ending in short awns. 
[ Bogs on Birmingham Heath. Holloways in Devonshire. ] 
Po J uly—~ 2 
P. Leafits strap-spear-shaped, wing-cleft, acute: stems 
smooth upwards. . ‘ 
Pluk. 180, AH, OXs xiv. se 8=Bo/t. 25—Munt, 288. 84-F- 
B. iti. 738. 
with it, pointing upwards and downwards. ‘The breadth of the 
leafits varies considerably in different plants, but when they are 
narrow and the wings distant, the whole has a remarkably light 
and elegant appearance. # 
Female Polypody. Moist and shady marshy places. Moist 
rocky woods ; about rivulets, and on heaths. pLewesdon Hill. 
Mr. Baxer. ] P. June—Sept. | 
P, Leafits deeply wing-cleft; segments oblong, blunt, ser- 
rated, fringed: clusters of capsules in a double row. 
Fructifications on the upper, but not on the lower leafits. Lins 
But with us on all the leafits when the plant is come to maturity: 
_ Crested Polypody. Moist woods and shady places in a gravelly 
soil. In chinks of moist rocks, and old walls; and in marshy 
places at the root of decaying oaks, [On Ben Bourde, a moun- 
tain 7 miles N, W.. from Invercauld, Aberdeenshire. Mr. 
Brown. ] P. June—Se 
P, Primary wings spear-shaped; leafits with a few irregu- 
: d 
ar. teeth towards the end: stem very slender an¢ 
brittle, 
