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below the water-fall ; alfo about the rocks by the fpring at Long- 

 Crag, near Watlingftreet. The younger plants are difpofed on the 

 ground in the form of a ftar. 



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175. T\\o. flowering Stone-Fern (w) is plentiful among the rocks 

 under the Roman wall, on the wefl-lide of Sheiving-fheels. It is alfo 

 among the rocks by Cnj^-lake, towards the weft end, in great 

 abundance. It grows in tufts. The root is compofed of long, 

 black, capillary fibres. The ftalks are naked for four or five 

 inches, finooth, and ilender. The foliola are of a lively green, 

 elegantly cut ; part like thofe of curled pariley, and part narrow 

 and reflex at the edges, on which are the fructifications, per- 

 fected in Auguft and September, of a beautiful orange-yellow. 



176., Hind' s-Tongue (x.) is fcarce with us. I have obferved it to 

 grow fparingly among 'the rocks by a fmall cataract, or water- 

 fall, 



p. ccxiii. Lonchitis afpera minor. Cam. Epit. p. 665. Park. Thentr. p. 1042. Lonchitis 

 altera foliis POLYPODII. /. B. iii. p. 744. Lonchitis minor. C. B. Pin. p. 359. Lon- 

 chitis vuigatior folio vario. Hift. Oxvn. iii. p. 569. Polypodium anguftifolium folio vario. 

 Tourn. Inft. p. 540. Boerb. Ind. A. ii. p. 25. Pteris fronde pin.natifida lanceolata, laciniis 

 parallelis integerrimis. Linn. Flo. Suec. n. 844. Hill. Nat. Hift. PI. p. 137. Pteris fronde 

 pinnata, foliolis linearibus parallelis. Royen. lugdb. p. 497. 



(w) Adianthum album floridum f. Filicula'petraea crifpa. -Plubut. p. 9. t. 3. f. 2. ubi 

 utrumque foliorum genus pin^itur. Raj. Hift. i. p. 159. Filix botrytis minima, f. filicula 

 petrcea florida ANGLICA foliis pi urifariam divifi?. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 593. f. 14. 1.4. f. 4. 

 habet etiam utrumque foliorum genus. Ofmunda J^eflmorlandica foliis tenuiffime difleiSt^. 

 Petiver. n. 798. Filicda montana florida perelegans f. Adianthum album floridurm Bhir. 

 Obferv. p. 1 10. Filix ramis duplicato ramofis, latiffime divifis, pinnulis piofunde crcnatis, 

 per foecunditatem integris. Hall. Helv. p. 133. 



(x) Scolopendrium. C.rd. Hift. p. 113. Phyllitis. Maltli. p. 831. Cam. Epit. p. 579. 

 Icon buna. Dad. Pempt. p. 467. Ger. p. 976. emac. p. 1138. Raj. Hift, i. p. 134. Syn. 

 iii. p. 1 16. Phyllitis vulgaris. Clnf. Hift. p. ccxiii. Phyllitis f. Lingua cervina TRAGI. 



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