682 CRYPTCGAMIA FILICES. 



vera! places of the lowlands, as upon the rocks 

 on the Sourh fide of the water of Ea-, a little 

 below the Hellas ; and upon the recks at the 

 foot of the fandy holm on GlcnkiU-Burn, m the 

 parifh of Kirkmichael^ in DumfriesJJjire, tzz. 



The iialks are branched, and creep amongft the 

 mofs. The leaves are about an inch high, oia 

 fine pillucid green colour v;hen young, but 

 brown in decay. They arc alternately pinnate, 

 the pinn.e generally bifid, often dichotomous, 

 the lobes of a long elliptic form, finely ferrated 

 on the edges, decurrenr, or divided each in the 

 middle by a dark nerve. 



The fructifications arif<: in fingle globules from the 

 edges of the lobes near the angles of the ra- 

 ni. ficatiOns, and are compofed of two foliaceous 

 grten valves, containing fcvc^al fmall brown 

 feeds. 



PILULARIA. Gen. pL 1183. 



Flores mnfcuU ad latus frondis, 



Fruclificationes/(?w/»^^ad radicem, globofas, qua- 



driloculares. 



gi&'^ulifa-a PiLULARlA. 6>. //. 1563. {Pet, h£rh. t. 9./, 8, 

 ^' Vaill. Paris, t. \^.f. 6. Dillen. tnuf. t. 79./. i. 



1/ona. Oed. Dan. i. 223. cpi.) 

 Pepper- grais. Jnglis. 

 Jn damp places that have been overflowed during 



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