Fine-* 



POL"! POD! li 





in nearly 16° south latitude, yet they have in do cat 

 tropic. For an excellent account of the g< ographii 

 / P I t p. 8] 



Tin- leaves generally contain a thick .. ■■ it mucilage, with 

 which account many are considered pectoral and len 



and Capilhu V. neru ; but almost any others may be substitute d for th. m < 

 is so called from being prepared from the Adiantum Capilhu 



idered to I"- undoubtedly pectoral and slightly astringent ; though its 

 stroi .'. i~, according to Ainslie, a certauvemetic. The Peruvian Polypodiui 

 Acrostichum Huacaaro, and Polypodium crassifolium, are said to 

 important medicina] properties, especially the former; their effects ai 

 solvent, deobstraent, sudorific, and antirheumatic; antivenereal and fi 

 an also ascribed t" them. The leaves of Adiantum melanocaulon ai 

 lonioin India. | I . 1.215.) The tubes of the pipes of the Brazilian 



manufactured from the stalk of Mertensia dichotoma, which the) 

 The stem of many Bpecies i> > >< >t 1 » bitter and astringent ; whence that • 

 dally Aspidium lilix Mas, and Pteris aquilina, has been employed as an anthehnu 

 and Nothoehlaana piloeelloides has I" i □ used in India to subdue Bpongini as in th 

 They have also been given as emmenagogues and purgath 

 i employed successfully, in doses of 3 drachms, in the i 

 Nephrodium esculentum are eaten in Nipal, according t>> Buchanan. Diplazium < bcu- 

 lentum, Cyathea meduHaris, Pteris i sculenta, and Gleichenia Hermanni, ai 

 -ii'iially employed for food in different countries. Speaking of Pteri 

 Taamannian fern-root, Mr. Backhouse Bays, •• Pigs feed upon this root where it i 

 turned up bj the plough ; and in sandy soils, they will themselves turn up the earth in 

 March of it. The Aborigines roast it in the ashes, peel off its black skin with 

 their teeth, and eat it with their roasted kangaroos, &c. in the same manner as Euro- 

 peans '-at bread. The root of the Tara-fern possesses much nutritive matl 



to 1 bserved, thai persons who have been reduced to the use of it, in long 



through the bush, nave become very weak, though it has prolong 

 aquilina and Aspidium I'ilix Mas have been used in the manufacture ol 

 Anpidium fra^rans a- a suhsiitutf for tea. Agdh. The fragrance which giv< - its 

 to the latter Bpecies occurs occasionally elsewhere. Polypodium phymut 

 ployed, along with Angiopteris evecta, in preparing the cocoa-nut oil of the South - 

 islands; Aneunia tomentosa smells of myrrh, and Mohria thurifera in. 



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V 



1. — Polypo I 



Gen. \wi. B] 



,1. with a ■ 

 ring ; spon ■ roundish 



\111g. 



iLeroatlchun 



PoWbotrya, //. /;. 



- Uott. 



Olfeisla, Radd 

 Blaphoglatium,£ 

 Rhipidopterit, Schott. 



Btenochlcna, .' * 



Lomagnunma, J Sib. 

 i Is, Pre* . 



- Qosemia, / ' 



Camoium, Preit. 



I \ i 



■rni'iim. Gaudich. 

 Cyrtogonium, J 

 Photinopteris, .' sm. 

 opteris, Etchto. 



i, - it. 



HymenoUpit, Kaulf. 



chilut, Kaulf. 

 Anai • i . i' 

 Semionitis, linn. 



Antrnphvi id, K'ni//. 

 im. 



Polytaeu am, D 

 Gymnogramma, Dtt*. 



.nmnin, /' 

 ( alomi lanos, / 



Grammitis, 

 Xiphopteris, K ml/. 



Ciyptogrammn, R. lir. 

 Diblemi 



- 



Hum. 



..iini. 



- 



I 



I 



Blum. 



M • 



. Kaulf. 

 \ 



Drymo 



Pleoci it- 



I 



■ 



! 

 I'tlM 



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'I 



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S.imm. 



Fig. LVI.— Spore-eases of H 



