CKYPTCG/\yiIA FILICES. tS^ 



It creeps upon the ground and forms 2. mat, en- 

 crcafing by runners, which throw out numerous 

 white radicles at the joints. The leaves grow 

 creel from the runners, are about two or three 

 inches high, narrow, round and fubulate, of a 

 yellow green colour, relembling young grafs, 

 many of the fmalieft curled at the extremity. 



The male fruftifications, according to Linncits^ 

 grow in a powdered lire on the back of the 

 leaves. 



The female ones are globular, of the Hze of a 

 pepper- corn, placed fingly upon the root at the 

 bale of the leaves, apparently fefTile, but in 

 reality fupported on a very fhort peduncle. 

 They are covered with a hairy rind, and arc di- 

 vided into four cells, each containing ieveral ob-^ 

 tufcly oval white feeds, imbedded in a rind of 

 liairy farinaceous pulp. 



ISOETES. Cen.fi. 11 84. 



Flores mafculi Anthera intra bafm frondis. 



Flcres feminei Cofjula biiocuJarls, intra balm 



frondis. 



kcujlm I. ISOETES. 5/>. ^l 1563. {Tiillen. mujc.t. 80. / 2, 

 opt. Oed. Dan. 1. 191. J 



Quillwori. Angl'ts. 



It grows under the v^^ater at the bottom of ihc 

 highland lakes, but not very common. We ob- 

 Irrved it in fcm.e fmall lochs near the foot of the 



