^?4 CRYPTCGAMIA FILICES. 



much in figure, bcingiametimes acute and fal- 

 cated (which is thrir moil ufual appearance) at 

 other times truncated and more deeply and 

 acutely fei rated, which we confider only as va- 

 rities. 



The llalks alfo are fomctimes found of a red co- 

 lour, as at the foot of Ben-lomond 



The frudl.fications at firft appear in dlflrincfl round 

 dots, covered with deciduous Tcales bur, when 

 arrived to maturity, they often flow together, 

 and almoft c:>ver the inferior difc of tht leaf. 



tltypter-.s POLYPODIUM fronde fub-bipinnata, pinnis pin- 

 ** natifidis integern'mis, fubtus undique polline tec- 



tis. S,yfi. Net. edit. 13. p. 788. Mantijs. p. 505. 

 ACROSTICIIUM rbelypteris. Sp. pL 152S. 

 {Moris. h:[i. f. 14. /. 4. /. 17. prima fupericris or- 

 difiis r.df.mjircim. Pluk. /. 179-/. 3. Fronsfierilis. 

 t. 284./. i. lona.) 



Marlli Polypody, j^nglis. 



In boggy placts not untVequent, efpecially in the- 

 lowlands. %. 



The leaves vary from fix inches to a cubit in 

 h':"irrht, but are generally about ten inches high, 

 of a pale green colour, at firft view relembling 

 the POLYPOD. FiUx ma:. The flalks arc a 

 licde fcaly when young, but fmoorh when grown 

 to maturity. The leaves are nrit pinnated witli 

 an uncertain number of pairs, from 20 to 40 -, 

 thefl* are again pinnatifid, or divided almoil to 



