328 SYSTEMATIC INDEX. 



filix-mas * : dilatatum : foenisecii. Cystopteiis fiagilis. Aspleuium 

 filix-femina : adianthum nigrum : mta-muraria : alteinifolium : tri- 

 chomanes : septentrionale. Scolopendrium vulgare. Blechnura bo- 

 reale. Pteris aquilina. Allosorus crispus. Osmunda regalis. 



OpHiOGLOSSEiE. — Botrychium lunariat- Ophioglossum vulgatum. 



LvcoPODiACEiE. — Lycopodium alpinum : clavatum : selago. Selaginella 

 selaginoides. 



* The history of the Male Fern proves the unjvist neglect into which 

 native remedies easily fall. Our early herbalists all extol the root as a 

 medicine which " killeth both the broad and long worms in the body;" 

 and the truth of it begins to be recognized. See Professor Christison in 

 Month. Journ. of Medical Science for July 1853. 



t " It hath beeiie credibly reported to me, from severall hands, that if a 

 man take an Elder stick, and cut it on both sides, so that he preserve the 

 joynt, and put in his Pocket when he rides a journey, he shall never gall." 

 " And if a Footman take Mugw ort and i)ut into his Shoos in the Morning, 

 he may goe forty Miles before Noon and not be weary. I have read that 

 the lesser Moonwort will open Locks and pull off the Shooes of the Horses 

 feet that passe over it. I have heard that if Maids will take wilde Tansey, 

 and lay it to soak in Biittermilke for the space of nine dayes, and wash 

 their faces theremth, it will make them look very faire." Coles' Art of 

 Simpling, p. 68. — Master W. Coles rebukes Mr. Culpeper for telling " my 

 countrymen," " nonsensicall stories of I know not what." (!) 





AGARICUS INVOLUTUS. 



