654 CRYPTOGAMIA PIUCES* 



obf^rved plenty of it in Hainwg wood, in Ster- 

 UnglJjire, ^.VIKVIII. 



The rc^t is thick, externally fibrous, and covered 

 Nvith thin brown fcales. The Fron^, or leaf, is a 

 yard high, doubly pinnated, the pnmU varying- 

 irom fix to ten pair, with an odd one at the end, 

 each about two inches long, lanceolate and en- 

 tire, divided by a middle rib, from both fides 

 of which arilt numerous fine bifid and dichoto- 

 mous nerves, their ramif|i|l.ions capillary and 

 parallel. The central leaves arc terminated with 

 a doubly pinnate branch of frudifications j the 

 pinnules awl-ihap'd, and crowded with feflilc 

 clufters of globular capfules, green when young, 

 yellowifh brown when ripe, and burfting verti- 

 cally •, the external leaves are barren. 



This is the ^largeft and moft fpecious of all the 

 Britjjh ferns. 



*** Brondibffs aliis foUaceis^ aliis frunificantihus, 



Jpicant 3. CSMUNDA frondibus lanceolatis pinnatifidis, la- 

 ciniis confiuentibus integerrimis parallehs. Sp. 

 pi. 1522. {Ger. em. 1140./. 2. Moris, hijt.f, 14, 

 /. 2,/. 23. Oed. Ban. t. 99. opt.) 



Rough Spleen-wort. AngUs. 



In woods and heaths. ^. VIT. VIII. 



The leaves are of a long elliptic-lanceolate form, 

 pinnatifid, and grow in a circle reclining towards 

 the ground. The exterior ones are perennial and 



barren, 



