CRiFTCGAMIA FILiCES. 



dented on the edges and about four or five pair, 

 with an odd one at the end upcn each pinnule. 



The fruclifications are round dots, white at firi't, 

 large for the fjze of the lobes, brov/n and con- 

 lluent when ripe, and covering the under fide 

 of tlie leaf, as in "the genus of ACROSTI- 

 CHUM. 



J-Jalier and IViis are of opinion, that the POLY- 

 POD. Khd'ticitm. Lin. Sj>. pi. 1552, is no other 

 than a variety of the preceding. See Ger. emac. 

 IT 42, /. ?. Moris, hijl.f. 14. /. 4. /. 2b'. Pluk. 

 179./. 5.? iecundum fynonym. fed fig, diflimili^. 



The le:ives of tlfis are nearly a foot high, of 2 

 more tender fubftance, a paler green colour, and 

 wider than the foregoing ; the pinn^s more nu- 

 merous, from 15 to 20 pair, placed at a more 

 acute angle with the rib. The pinnules are 

 longer and wider, their lobes nearly lanceolate 

 and acutely ferratcd. 

 The frudifications are commonly hnaller, and 

 more diftincl. 



***"' Fronds fupradecoinpofiia. 



POLYFODIUM frondibus fupradecompofitis, 

 foliolis ternis bipinnatis. ^p. pi. i^c,^. (Ger. em. 

 ^^3S-f' 3 ^«5m. hijt. f. 14. /. 4. / 19. i,cna, 

 Amman. Comment. Acad. Petrop. T. X. p. 301 

 Tab. 22, /. 2.) 



Small-branched Polypody. Anglis, 

 la dry floney places not tinccmm.on, as at Ler^g- 



holm 



