CRYPTOGAMIA FILICES. (^-j^ 



llate, if there are any frudifications, they are 

 only to be found upon fix or eight of the up- 

 permoft pair of phin<e. This is the FilixloJichi- 

 lidis affints. Ran Syn.-p. 121./. 4, which Pliike- 

 net has figured in two different ftates, Almng, /. 

 J79./. 6. i^.. /• 180./ 3. and this is the POLY- 

 PODIUM hhatum, Hudf. FL Aug, p. 390. 

 It grows commonly in fhady places. Mr. Talden 

 obferv'd it clofe by Moffat well, in Annandak. %, 



POLYPODIUM frondibus bipinnatis, foliolis re- 

 motis, pinnis fubrotundis incifis. S^. pL 1553. 

 (Ger. em. ii^S' /• 2. huic pertinere vkieiur, & 

 etiam FailL Paris, t. 9./. i. Pluk, aim. t. 180./. 

 5, bona. Oed. Dan. / 401. opt) 

 Fine-leav'd brittle Polypody. AngUs, 

 Upon rocks, and dry ftoney places frequent, -y . 



It varies from two inches to ten or twelve in 

 height 5 its mod common ftature about half a 

 foot. The/mallcr varieties are figured by Barre- 

 Her. ic. 432./. 2. and by Seguier^ Plant. Vcronens* 



t ../. I. 



The flalks are fmooth, flender, very brittle, and 

 reddilh at the bafe. The leaves are doubly pin- 

 nate, the pinn^ nearly oppofite, from 10 to 15 

 pair, the lowermoft very remote, fiiorter than 

 the middle ones, and all of them placed nearly 

 at right angles v/irh the rib. The pinnules in 

 the fecond divifion are fix or eight pair, each of 

 them femipinnate, their labcs obtufcly oval, and 



dented 



