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664 CRYPTGGAMIA FILICES. ^ 



Linnaus to call this fpecies, A. ^richomanes ra- 

 mofum, 



iT.arinum 5. ASPLENIUM frondibns pinnatis, pinnis obovatis 

 fcrratis, fuperne gibbis obtufis, bafi cuneatis. 

 Sp. j)L 1540. (Ger. em. 1143./. 4. Moris, hijl. f, 

 14. /. 3'/« 25. bona. Pluk. ^.253./. 5. Pet.Gaz^ 

 i. ^i.f.uopt.) 



Sea Fern, or Maidenhair. Anglis. 



Out of the r6cks by the fea fide in many places, 

 as in the coves at IVeems^ on the coafl: of Fife 1 

 in the ifie of Arran, out of the rocks going 

 from Corry to Brodrick caftle, and in the caves 

 at Vummadocfi^ in the fame ifland i in Sanick- 

 Cave, in the iQand of IJla, &c. V. 



The leaves vary from three inches to a foot in 

 length. The ftalks are fmooth, and generally 

 of a red fufcous colour, efpecialiy ac the bale. 

 The rib is fometimes of the fame colour. The 

 pinn^ are ufually three quarters of an inch long, 

 but vary from half an inch to an inch long. 

 They are nearly of a rhomboidal form, fcrrated 

 on the edges, gibbous at the bafe on the upper 

 fide, but refcinded on the lower, and vary in 

 number from eight pairs to twenty. The fruc- 

 tifications are difpofcd in lines, making an acute 

 angle with the nerve, which lines vary from three 

 :q nineteen, and do not run together, but con- 

 tinue diftindl when the capfules are ripe. 



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