CRYPTOGAMIA FILICES. 671 



Crefted Polypody. Anglis, 



In woods and wet rocky places frequent. 1;. 



It varies from fix inches to a cubit or more in height. 

 The ftaik and nerves are covered with brown 

 filmy fcales. The outline of the leaf is nearly 

 triangular. In inofl: fpecimens the bafe of the 

 leaf is only doubly pinnate •, in many others 

 trebly pinnate, and in both the pinnules are 

 again pinnatifid -, their lobes oval-obtufe and 

 Iharply fcrrated, the ferratures generally a little 

 reflex'd. The upper part of the leaf is only 

 fimply pinnate, the pinnules pinnatifid, and 

 their lobes oval-obtufe, and ferrated, as before. 

 At the very extremity of the leaf the pinn<« flow 

 together. The frufliBcations are difpofed in 

 numerous fmall dots, in two rov/s, upon the 

 back of the pinnules, as in the reft of the ge- 

 nus, and are covered at firft with a fcaly involu^ 

 crtim. Linnaus fays, that the upper part of the leaf 

 only produces frudifications, and not the lower ; 

 in ours the whole is generally fertile, when the 

 the leaf comes to maturity. 



ftix mas 5. POLYPODIUM frondlbus bipinnatis, pinnis ob- 

 tufis crenulatis, ftipite paleaceo. Sp. pi, 1551. 

 (Ger, em. 11 28./. i, Moris, hiji.f, 14. t, 5./, 6„ 

 melior, Gunneri Flor, Norvegica, P. L p. 4. tab 1 



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Common Male Fern, ^nglis, 

 Raineach. Gaulis* 



In 



