OF TREES AND PLANTS. 2j -i 



of wood below the freeflone-quarry oppoiitc to the upper end of 

 the rectory-den at Simonburn, plentifully with the black Maiden-hair, 

 where it is larger than common, in a moift clay-foil, covered 

 with mofs, rotten flicks, and putrid leaves, to whofe fertilizing 

 falts it owes its groflhefs and luxuriancy. The root is black, 

 fibrous, and creeping, fending forth new plants at fmall diftan- 

 ces. The ftalk is naked for three or four inches or more, fmooth, 

 flender and fragile. The pinnules are broad at the bottom, and 

 narrower all the way up, lanceolated, and ending in a remark- 

 able long fegment, of a yellowifh-green, with many nerves. 

 The fructifications are in dots on the back of thefotiola, perfected 

 in autumn. Its ufual height is from feven to twelve inches. 



183. Creeping Water-Fern, or the lejjer MarJh-Fern ff), is not com- 

 mon. It is in the fi/Tures of the cavernous dripping rocks of 

 Tecket-wa.ter-fa.il ; alfo in the hollows of the fhadowy dripping 

 rocks on the edge of the brook below Tecket, on the north fide, 

 in large tufts. I obferved it too on a moift bank at the end of 

 the deep crag in Honeyclugh, below the fmall cataract, near Chef- 

 terwood, on the eaft fide. The root is tufted and knobby at the 

 crown, with long blackifh creeping fibres. It fends forth a great 



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(f) Filix fontis admirabilis ad marem vulgarem non ramofam, accedens, non dentata. I. B. 

 iii. p. 109. defer. Et Filix tenuiflime & profunde denticulata MONTHELGARDICA. Icon, 

 ib. Filix minor paluftris repens. Raj. Syn. iii. p. 122. Synonyma mutavit cl. HALLER, 

 examinatis notis & defcriptionibus. Hanc enim frequentia orbiculorum feminalium," illam 

 inordinate pinnae diftinguunt & parvitas. Polypodium pinnis ramorum integris, frequenti- 

 bus, ordinatitn defcrefcentibus. Hall. Helv. p. 139. fequenti defcriptione. 



.*' Ad filicem marem omnino accedir, flatura, frequentia confertorum ramorum, qua 

 " priores fuperat, pinnarum longitudine, & oris parallelis, &c. Sed margines integerrimi 

 fu'nt, & bafibus confluunt, uti in priore (n. 81.) Ortiiculi feminales numcrofi, ad 10 

 paria, & ultra, concinno ordine difponuntur." HALLER. 1. c. 



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