OF TREES AND PLANTS. 249 



Gorbrldge. It is alfo fparingly in the fi flu res of the church-wall of 

 St. Peter, in Eywell. There is a plant of it in a filTure of the 

 chancel-wall of the church at Slmonburn, on the north fide. It 

 was more frequent before many of the old towers and other an- 

 tient caftellated buildings were pulled down. It was in great 

 plenty, and larger than common, in the joints and crevices of 

 the old ruin of Simonburn-ca.ft.le, before it was taken down, and 

 an artificial one raifed in its room, for an object of pleafure, by 

 its owner, Sir Lancelot Allgood, of Nunivick, Knight. Some of the 

 plants that were flickered within the hollows from the winds, 

 were four, and others near five, inches high, fuftained by no 

 other nourishment than the mortar, a mixture of lime and fand, 

 and fuch falts as might be derived from the walls, mellowed by 

 age, and parting freely. The fructifications are on the back- 

 part of the foliola, perfected in September, of a coal-black. It is 

 one of the five capillaries, and is not unfrequently ufed as zfuc- 

 cedaneum to the true maiden-hair. Its chief ufe is as a pectoral, 

 in the form of tea *. There are fome who advife it for the fcur- 

 vy f. It fometimes enters into emetic draughts :. 



1 8 1. Polypody (d) is frequent at the roots of trees and about 

 rocks in damp mountainous woods, and old fliadowy ftone- 



walls, 



1081. Rayen. lugdb. p. 498. Hill. Nat. Hift. PI. p. 140. Afplenium ramis duplicate ra- 

 mofis, pinnis ferratis, aequalibus, &laxe difpofitis. Hall. Helv. p. 137. 



* Alleyne. Chomel. f Etmuller, ex experimento Micbaells. 



J Boerhaavius, HIPPOCRATJS imitator. CL. HALLER. 1. c. 



(d) Polypodium. Trag. p. 539. Cord. p. 171. Mattb. p. 1292. /. B. iii. p. 746. Raj. 

 Hift. i. p. 137. Raj. Syn. iii. p. 117. Ger. p. 972. etnac. p. 1132. Filicula f. Pi-lypo- 

 dium. Cam. Epi'. p. 993. Polypodium majus. Dad. Pempt. p. 464. Polypodium vulgare. 

 C, B. Pin. p. 357. Park. Theatr. p. 1039. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 56?. Tourn. Inft. p. 540. 



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