CRYPTOGAMIA FILtCES, 673 



The fame author adds, that this ferh cut green and 

 dry'd in the opien air, affords not only an excel- 

 lent litter for cattle, but, if infufed in hot water, 

 becomes no contemptible fodder to goats, fheep 

 and other cattle, which will readily eat, and 

 fometimcs grow fat upon it : a circumflance well 

 worth the attention of the inhabitants of the 

 Highlands and Hebrides^ as great numbers of 

 their cattle, in hard winters, frequently perilli 

 for want of food. 



Mix^fmina POLYPODIUM frbndibiis bipinnatis, pinnulis 

 lanceolatis pinnatifidis acutis. Sp.pl. 1551 (Fluk. 

 phyt. t. 180./. 4. Moris, hijt. 3. />. 579-/ 14. 

 ' /. 3./. 8. bona.) 



Female Polypody. Anglis- 



In woods and moift (hady places, but not fo com- 

 mon as the preceding, "i* . 



The leaves are a cubit high -, the ftalk generally 

 waved and fmooth, but fometimes fcaly. The 

 firft divifion of \\\t pinna is diftinct and diftant, 

 thirty or more in the feries. The nerves fmooth, 

 fine, and (lender : the fecond divifion, or the 

 pinnules upon thefe nerves, are alfodiftinft, very 

 fine, delicate, and numerous, being upwards of 

 30 pair upon each nerve, of a linear lanceolate 

 form, and femipinnate, the lobes having gene- 

 rally two or three acute ferraturcs at the extre- 

 mity. Thefe lobes are tender and pellucid, com- 

 monly nine or ten- pair in nurriber, varying 

 X X" muc^ 



