tGe CRYPTOGAMIA FILICES. 



The leaves foriietimes vary with longer and more 

 acute pinnules, as figured by Flukeml. t. 3./. 3. 



It was formerly received in the fliops as a pedloral 

 and deobltruenr, and recommended in coughs, 

 afthmas, obftruflions of the liver and fpleen, and 

 in fcorbutic complaints, but is at prefent out of 

 repute. 



anJmtum ASPLENIUM frondibus fubtripinnatis, foUolis 

 ntgrusit -]' alternis, pinnis lanceolatis incifo-ferratis. Sp.pL 

 1541. {Ger. em, 1137./. i. Moris, hijl, /. 14. 

 /. 4./. 16. Biackme/l t. 220. Oed, Dan. t. 250.; 



Black Maidenhair. Anvils. 



Ivi the fiffures of rocks frequent. On Loch-Coat 

 hills, near Linlithgow. Sibbdd. V. 



The leaves are eight or nine inches high, their out- 

 line triangular ; the flalks of a fhining dark red, 

 or blackifh colour. The leaves are firft alter- 

 nately pinnated •, thefe pinnae are again fecondly 

 pinnated, and thofe fecondary pinnules are laftly 

 lubdividcd hajf-way down into oval ferrated 

 lobes. The frudifications appear at firft in 

 ■whitifh lines, which, when ripe, flow together, 

 and often cover the inferior difc with brown glo- 

 hr.lar annulated capfules. 



It v-as formerly received in the fhops as a perioral, 

 but is r^ew difufcd. 



POLYPODIUM. 



