GRYPtOGAMIA ALGIE. 771 



sfpknioides J. frondibus fimpliciter pinnatis, foliolls ovatis 

 3' fubciliatis. Sp.pL 1597. (Michel, gen. t, 5. / g. 



ciliis ncn depi^is. Loes. Prujf, 1 6j, t. 47. alfqttg 

 eiliis. Dillen, t. 69./. 5. opt.) 



Spleenwort Jungermarinia. Anglis. 



In moid fhady woods, and at x\\t roots of trees, 

 mixed with other mofles. IV. 



This is the largeft^^e Britijh Jungerthannia. The 

 ftalks are about a finger's length, railed a little 

 from the ground, either fimple, or divided into 

 a few branches. The leaves are roundifli, gib- 

 bous, or a little convex on the upper fide, and 

 concave underneath ; pellucid, yellowilh green, 

 deftitute of nerves, finely ciliated on the edges, 

 growing alternately^.- pinnate, and near to each 

 other. 



The fructifications are produced at the extremities 

 of the branches, out of long cylindrical vagina, 

 or (heaths. The peduncles are about an inch 

 long, pellucid, and filvery ; the anther^., or 

 heads, are oval, of a fhining black-red colour, 

 burfting into four equal lanceolate valves, con- 

 taining a fine pollen., or powder, affixed to nu- 

 merous curled elaftic hairs, as in all the other 

 fpecies of ih'ik genus . 

 |3^ There is a variety of this with leaves more evi- 

 dently ciliated, and growing more clofely pin- 

 nate, fo that their edges lie upon one another, 

 but in other refpeds the fame. See Michel, gen, 

 /. 5./ *• 2. Moris, hiji.f. i*,. /. 6./. 42. Vail, 

 Paris, /. 19./. 7. Dillen. mufc, t. 69 /. 6. opt. 

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