CRYPTOGAMIA FILICLS. 679 



holm and Brocmholm^ in EJkdah^ and about Dun- 

 kelJ, in StoTTnount^ 6k c. %. 



The plant is about a foot Jiigh ; the ftalk Hcnder, 

 imooth, brittle, and naked above half way up, 

 afterwards doubly njnnare, the pi'?mT {landing 

 oppofite, and alfuming a triangular divifion. 

 The pinnules are fubdivided alnjoft to the nerve, 

 the lobes of a linear obtufe form, the lower 

 ones crenated on the edges, the upper ones often 

 entire, and running together. The pinn.^ in this 

 ipccies do not grow exa^ly perpendicular but 

 decline towards the horizon. The frucflificat^ons 

 are difpofed in two rows of large round dots 

 upon each lobe, which, when ripe, expand and 

 cover the inferior fide of the leaf. 



Thepmn^e arc about 12 or 15 pair, their fubdivi- 

 fions nearly the fame, fmooth, of a pale green 

 colour. The outline of the leaf approaches 

 near to an equilateral triangle. 



Frumficationes in maculis tcrminalibus, fub repH. 

 cato margine frondis, 

 capiUus've~ ADIANTUM frondibus decompofitis, foliolis al- 

 neris 1. terni,-,, pinnls cuneiformibus lobatis pediccllatis. 



Sp. -pi, 1558. {Ger. mac. 1143./. i. Moris, hifi, 

 /. i4-r.5./. 6.) 

 True Maidenhair. Mglis. "U, 

 Dr. Sihthorpe^ the prefent moft obliging profefibr 

 of botany, at Oxford, favoured mc with the 

 fjght of a large and per^x^d fpetimen of this 



fern. 



