the lines of fruit are less numerous, 
peler then in the Gres dasagtid. Siaetes 
pete Mise. t. 5. f. 2.) 
lanceolatum. In is species the frond is bi- 
pinnate and pointed ; the pinnules obovate, dentate, and 
acuminated, It is a native of the south of Britain, and 
found by Mr Forster on the rocks at Tunbri 4 
about a span in length, the lines of capsules 
phe pmo ah 
adiantum nigrum. With” deltoid fronds, al- 
teonataly tigi innate, and with lanceolate, cut, and ser- 
by Bolton, 30.t. 17. There is 
in ion to their size. 
of trees. The smaller was found in a dark cave 
in the mountains of Mourne in Ireland; and in this 
variety the fronds are barren. and membranous, ele- 
gently laciniated. 
. A. septentrionale, with a trifido-pinnate frond, 
ait linear pinnee, as it were torn at the point. 
It is found in the fissures of the me, and other 
rocks in the be Ste a oe of Edinburgh, where Wil- 
lisel found it y’stime. - 
8. A. ruta muraria, with the frond alternately de- 
com nz rhomboidal open eroded at the point, 
tly in Eng. Bot. t t. 150. We have suc- 
in obtaining germinating seeds of this, and other 
ferns, and found the ent answer best in decayed 
mortar mixed "with vegetable mould, taken from under 
the J str plant in ancient ruins. 
numerous 
wild. 594. Hort. Kew. 15.) merits attention, This 
species has bipinnate fronds, and oblong acute pinnules, 
serrated at the point ; but it ‘js chiefl y remarkable on ac- 
count of its agreeable odour. that of Anthor- 
anthum bp Ae 
ery long linear filiform points. is species, though 
poribesly hardy, is in few collections. It was intro- 
Britain above a century ago by Mr John 
The A. monanthemum, a native of the Cape of Good 
Hope, is another singular 
group of capsules on each pin 
im 1790, specie ready dese by Lab of London. To 
iere, as native 
Sf Now Lfolland frows (Pr atte has added the 
following new species own to Wi Ww, viz, 
Genera (insulated) of uncertain affinity, 
"Canis ncn PD Fase, t 9 £2. 1968, 
5 peal 
fissure. 
of Sir J. Edward 
that we owe the separation of this and other 
species, the A. fragrans gin 
FILICES: 
genera of ferns from those originally established 
neus, Although before the i tran ees 
» this was wi Tip me 
t the via, with which, however, 
i seemed ta Soe little affinity. . 
1. Scolopendrium officinale, is a native of I 
the stem is black, as in several other ferns, and scaly and 
poe & Ths Gras, $e ber re he 
to ces, entire, 
cae at the base, and narrowed at the | 
ai 
smooth, and of 4 bright green colour. 
of a dark brown colour, and very often’ 
riations on the waved margin of the frond, or iC~ 
casional lobes produced at the point, are the effect of 
situation, Although, like the rest of the senate it will 
grow on the most elevated ruins, in the cre 
stones, it attains a large size on a richer isher dap 
i Sc. hemionitis, 
Pgy base of the frond, 
(2.) Diplazium, (Swartz, Syn. Filic. p. at wd Sy 
Pipl mone B. de St Vincent) ~* 
Capsules in distant double. lines, simple, or : 
The fivolucha double, each opening townie the Wiese 
of the frond. 
Willdenow describes ten species of this genus, which, 
althoug h in habit somewhat 
will 
jescrbine 1 it as 
Swartz having only a pinna, which he mistook for 
entire frond. This species derives its name from the 
stem abounding more with that sweet gummy. sap, 
which is common, as already observed, to op ae 
part of the even in Europe. : 
ROR NG Te 
eg Ay eR agen ag most, magnificent of 
t OF nelinty of Rootes ‘an Ses oe. ‘ 
in length ; an: ae te pinne are 
i upnocy rfal eet long ; jc paula See a 
r 
_ Tinear, atte caters Rom e 
ving an eect kemitot a Roane the ft en 
howit dtengh tn cota seed 
(3.) Viltaria. (Sm. Act. Taur. Willd. 1971.) 
Copeul tinuous marginal or dorsal 
involu pas eats bly ite eats res 
he inwards. 
esto 7 
form fra 
