662 CRYPTOGAMIA FILICES. 



and pinnacifid j the pinnules alternate, femioval 

 and obtufe, fmooth, and green on the upper 

 furface, but entirely covered underneath with 9, 

 thick coat of ferrugineous fcales. The frudifi- 

 cations make their firft appearance in five, fix, 

 or feven lines, inclining towards the rpiddlc 

 nerve. When the capfiiles are ripe, the involu- 

 (va which proteAed them burft, and cover the 

 under furface of the leaf, as before-mentioned, 

 in the form of fcales. 

 It is recommended by the ancients for the various 

 diforders of the fpleenj but, unhappily, modern 

 experience does not countenance the recom- 

 mendation, 



*** Fronde finnata. 



trichoma' ASPLENIUM frondibus pinnatis, pinnis fubro- 



noides ^, tundis crenatis. Syji. nai. p. 690. Sp. pi. 1540. 



{Cer. em. \i^6.f. i. Moris, kijl.f, 14. /. 3./. 



10. ordinisfuperioris. Bidckwell. t. 370. Oed. Dan* 



t.119.) 



Common Maidenhair. AngUi, 



It grows out of the crevices of rocks and old walls 

 frequently, as at the coves at IV^ems^ on the 

 coaift of Fife., and at the Hermitage near Edin- 

 hurgh. Dr. Farfcns, &:c. U. 



The leaves vary from three to ten inches in length, 

 and grov/ many together in tufts. The italk and 

 middle rib are fmooth, glofTy, and always of a 

 dark red or blackiHi colour. Tht pnn^ are ge- 

 nerally 



