CRYPTOGAMIA FlLlCES. ^53 



at firft, but yellow when ripe, and burfting ver- 

 tically from the top to the bafe. Thefe capfulcs 

 are divided by an annular zone, and contain nu- 

 merous, oval, dud-like feeds. Below the bafe 

 of the fpike is affixed to the ftalk a pinnated 

 leaf, conlifting of thick, fucculent fan-fbap'd 

 pinn^f, from three to eight pairs, with an odd 

 one at the end. 

 Q It varies fometimes with a leaf more or lefs com- 

 pounded, or doubly pinnated, as may be feen 

 in the figures above referred to. 

 It has a vulnerary quality like the preceding. 



*** Fronde ipfa fruaificationes ferente. 



rezalis 2. OSMUNDA frondibus bipinnatis apice racemife- 

 ris. Sp. pi. 1 52 1, (^er, em. 1131. Moris. hi{i. f. 

 14- /. 4. /. I. ordinis inf. mi, Oed- Ban, t.ii-j. 



opt-) 

 Flowering Fern, or Ofmund Royal. Anghs. 



Royal Brachens. Scotis. 



It grows in bogs, on the borders of lakes, and our 

 of rocks by the fea-fidc in many places. We 

 obferved it in the following: AiComjWaden, by 

 the fide of Loch-Lomond; in the iHe of Bute, 

 near Ml. Stuart -, in Jrran, out of the rocks by 

 the fea fide going from Corry to Brodrick caflle, 

 and out of the rocks at the caves df Dumma- 

 doon ; in IJla, by the fides of Loch-Guira ahun. 

 dantly; in Coknja and Midh &c. Sibbald alfo 



obferved 



