ajo OF TREES AND PLANTS. 



walls, topped with earth. The fructifications are on the back 

 of the leaves, in orbiculated or round dots, in a double feries, 

 parallel to the nerve, perfected in autumn, of a beautiful orange- 

 yellow. The root is of a naufeous, but fweetifh tafle. A drachm, 

 or two of the juice of it taken at a time, is commended for the 

 hypochondriac affection *. It is cathartic or purgative, but not 

 effectual under a lefs quantity than four ounces -f. It is there- 

 fore feldom ufed alone. It is an ingredient in pectoral and he- 

 patic draughts f . 



182. Oak-Fern (e) is frequent in the fiffures of moift rocks, and 



on the banks of damp woods. It is in the fiffures of the rocks 



by the ftone-grotto above TV^^-water-fall, and among the rocks 



on the banks of Crook-burn, between the lime-kiln and Town- 



fheele, about a mile and a half weft from Tecket. It is in the bank 



Martyn. Tourn. ii. p. 182, 183. Plum. Fil. Americ. p. 27. t. A. f. 2. Boerb. Ind. A. 

 p. 24. Polypodium quercinum, OFFICINARUM. Dal. Pharm. p. 63. Polypodium pinna- 

 turn, pinnis lanceolatis integris. Linn. Flo. Lapp. n. 380. Hall. Helv. p. 137. 



* BOERHAAVE Prat. f CHOMEL. plant. Us. p. 487. 



J HALLER. 1. c. 



(e) Dryopteris f. Querna-Filix. Lob. Adv. p. 363. Icon. p. 825. Dryopteris f. Filix 

 Querna repens. Park. Theatr. p. 1041. Filix pumila faxatilis ii. Cluf. Hift. p. ccxii. Fi- 

 lix minor non ramofa. I. B. iii. p. 740. Raj. Hift. i. p. 46. Tourn. Inft. p. 537. Filix 

 faxatilis foliis non ferratis. C. B. Pin. p. 358. Pluknet. Almg. t. 159. f. 3. Icon. bona. 

 Scheuchz. v. p. 425. Filix non ramofa minor fylvatica repens. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 580. 

 f. 14. t. 4. f. 17. Polypodium tenerum minus. Boerb. Ind. A. p. 25. Polypodium pin- 

 natum, pinnis lanceolatis pinnatifidis, integris, inferioribus nutantibus. Linn. Flo. Lapp. 

 n. 382. Hall. Helv. p. I 38. 



" Pinnae totae nervis confpicuis piclz, ut Filix femina. Extremae pinjias longe & diffbr- 

 " miter in unum fegmentum confluunt." Holler. 1. c. 



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