CRYPTOGAMIA FILICES. 6-: 



much ufed by the whitefmiths and ca^ 

 makers, under the name of Dutch ruihes. 



In Northumberland the dairy-maids icour and c\t:z.ii 

 their milk-pails with It. 



Some entertain an opinion that if cows chance to 

 feed upon it, their teeth will drop out. How- 

 true this may be I know not, but / ann perfuaded 

 that the pafture mufl be very bad where they 

 are compelled to eat fuch food. 



OPHIOGLOSSUM. Ge>t. pi. iiyi, 



5/fV<i articulata, difticha; articulis tranfverfim dc- 



hifcentibus. 



vulgatumi OPHIOGLOSSUiM fronde ovato. Sp.pl 1518. 



{Ger. em. 404. f. i, 2. Moris, hijl. f. 14. /, 5. 



fgur<e imds. BlachjDell t. 416. OeL Dan. t. i^y. 



opt.) 



Adder's Tongue. Jnglis. 



In meadows and moid paiturcs, but not very com^ 

 mon, as about Dy.nfmnane hill, in Goiirie, fire. 

 -U. V. 



The root is fibrous, the llalk varies m height from 

 a finger's length to a fpan or more, and is ter- 

 minated with a green, didichous, jointed tongue- 

 Ihap'd ipike, fubtended by a fingle, iong-ova!, 

 fucculent nervelels, fmooth leaf, which embraces 

 the {talk with its bafe. 1 he joints or nrticula- 

 tions burft tranfvfer/ly when ripe, and throw out 

 numerous roundilh feeds as Imail as duft. 



Many 



