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nerally roundifh and crenated, but vary often in 

 figure and crcnatures. The feminal lines are 

 three, four, or five ; pale at firft, but brown, 

 and cluftcred together when ripe. The involti- 

 crum IS a fcalej the capfule is fiirrounded with a 

 ring. 

 The country people fometimes give a tea or fvrup 

 of it for coughs and other complaints of the 

 thorax, but it is rarely ufed in the Ihops. 



Mirlde 4, ASPLENIUM fronde pinnata, pinnis fubrotundis 

 bafi truncatis. HudJ, Flcr. Ang. p- ^'^s- A, T'ri- 

 chomanes ramcfum. Lin. ^'p.pL 1541. {MoriSshiJl. 

 / 14, /. 3./. II. erdinis fuperioris.i^ ejus var.f, 

 13. t.ejufdenu) 



Green-ribb'd Maidenhair. Aji^Hs, 



It grows Out of the crevices of the rocks In the 

 highlands, but not very common. We gather'd 

 jt at Creg-a-chnocaen, on the boundary of Coy- 

 g0Ch and JJynty between Rofs-fiire and Suther- 

 land. ^. 



The ftalks at the bafe are reddifli, but the middle 

 rib is always green. The pinna are generally of 

 a rhomboidal torm, more deeply indented than 

 the preceding-, in other refpeds it agrees with 

 that, and Mailer thinks it only a variety oi it. 

 /5, Sometimes, but very rarely, the leaves are proli- 

 ferous, or have another leaf growing out of 

 them V which accidrnr, we fuppofe, induced 



Linjhetis 



