CRYPTOGAMIA FILICES. 657 



■a^uilina i. PTERIS frondibus fupradecompofitis, folioljspin- 

 natis, pinnis lanceolatis ; infimis pinnatifidis, fu- 

 perioribus minoribus. Sp.pl. 1533. (Ger, em. 

 1128./. 2. Moris- bijl.j. 14. /. 4./. 3. Blackwell 

 '• 3250 

 Female Fern, or Brakes. Anglis. 

 Raineach. Gaulis. 

 Brachens. Scotis. 

 In woods, heaths, and rough ftony foils abun= 



dandy. 1;. VII. VIII. 

 The root is branched, yellow, and creeping ; and, 

 if cut obliquely, exhibits, in two fufcous lines, 

 the figure of a crofs, or, as fome have fancied, 

 the imperial or fpreading eagle, which Induced 

 Linn<£us to apply to it the trivial name of Aq^ui- 

 lina. Tte flalk varies from two to five feet in 

 height, and is nearly quadrangular ; the angles 

 obtufe. This ftalk is firft of all alternately 

 branched, and thcfe branches are doubly pin- 

 nate : the pinnuU, or ultimate fubdivifions, are 

 feflile, lanceolate, nervous, ftifir", and generally 

 quite entire, and coalefcent at the bafe. The 

 uppermoft terminating lobe is longer and wider 

 than the reft, and is often either lemipinnate, or 

 auriculated at the bafe. The fruftifications grow 

 in a hairy line, on the under fide, all round the 

 edges of the pinnules. The capfules are glo- 

 bular, and are covered at firft with a membrane, 

 which gives way when the capfules are ripe. 



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