668 



CRYFIOGAMIA FfLlCES. 



7!ops. Stirp. Brit. p. 117, under the name of Fo- 

 lypcdium mttrale pinnuUs ferratis. Barrel ic. 38. 

 y. eamhri- The other is the P. (cnmhricum) frondibii* pinnati- 

 ^^'^'^- fidis, pinnis lanceolatis lacero-pinnatifidis ferra- 



tis. Lin. Sp. pi. 1^46. (Men's, hiji.f. 14. /. 2./. 

 8. Pluk. aim. t. 30./. I.) 

 Welch or jagged Polypody. Angli:, 

 The pinnules in this are pinnatifid, and their lobes 

 ferrated. It is certainly no other than a variety 

 of the preceding, as we have had opportunities 

 of determining, by obferving its different gra- 

 dations. In this ftate it is analogous to a dou- 

 ble flower amongft the lexual plants, and there- 

 fore never produces frudifications. See AS- 

 PLENIUM Scolopeyidrium var. y. 

 The roots of Polypody have a fweet naufeous 

 tafte. They were recommended by the ancients 

 as a cathartic to purge away bile and melan- 

 choly, in the quantity of two drachms to a dofe. 

 The moderns have almoft neglected them. Thofe 

 few who retain their ufe, lecommend an aque- 

 ous extrad prepared from thern, in obftruftions 

 of the vifcera, or a kind of ptifan made of them 

 for a pectoral. 



** Fronde pimiota. 



u 



knchitis 2. POLYPODIUM frondibus pinnatis, pinnis Itnu- 



latis ciliato-lerratis dcclinatis, llipitibus ftrigofis. 



t^p.pl. 1548. (Ger.etn. 1140. /. 3. Moris.hijt. f, 



14 /. 2./, I. crdinis inferior is. Oed. Dan. t. 497, 



Rough 



