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number of flalks, naked for four or five inches, flender, round, 

 fmooth, of a dark glofTy green, and fometimes with an amethyf- 

 tinc tinge, efpecially thofe in the fiffures of the dripping rocks, 

 from nine to fifteen inches high. The pinnules and folioles are 

 narrow at the top, of a lively pleafant green : the folioles are 

 finely cut. The fructifications are on the back part, in numer- 

 ous neat dots, perfected in September, of a dark or blackifh- 

 brown. 



184. Crejled Male-Fern (g) is plentiful on wood-banks. A hand- 

 ful of the root, infufed in white wine, is advifed by a learned 

 foreigner * as an excellent remedy for tumours that threaten a 

 dropfy. It is alfo commended for killing worms, and taking 

 away pains in the flomach f. 



185. The fmatl ere/led Fern (h) is frequent about damp rocks in 

 mountainous woods. It is plentiful among the rocks in the 



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(g) Filix. Dorfen. p. 124. Cam. Epit. p. 991. Filix mas. Fucbf. p. 594. bene. Mattb. 

 p. 1290. Dod. Pempt. p. 462. Filix mafcula. Cord. p. 169. Filix vulgo mas didla f. non 

 ramofa. /. B. iii. p. 797. Filix mas non ramofa dentata. C. B. Pin. p. 358. Hid. Oxon. 

 iii. p. 578. cum Icone, t. 3. f. 6. Tourn. Inft. p. 536. t. 310, 311. Beerk. Ind. A. p. 26. 

 Dill. GifT. p. 103. Filix mas vulgaris. Park. Theatr. p. 1036. Raj. Hift. i. p. 143. 

 Filix mas non ramofa, pinnulis latis, denfis, minutim dentatis. Ger. emac. p. 1129. Filix 

 mas pinnulis criftatis. Valll. Bot. Pans. p. 53. t. 9. f. 2. Polypodium fronde duplicate 

 pinnata, foliolis obtufis crenulatis, petiolo ftrigofo. Linn. Hort. Cliff, p. 475. Flo. Suec. 

 n. 846. Royert. lugdb. p. 499. Hall. Helv. p. 139. 



* CHOMEL. fupp. a I'biji. des pi. ufuel. p. 145. conf. p. 489. f HALLER. I. c. 



(b] Filix mollis five glabra vulgar! mari non ramofae accedens. I. B. iii. p. 738. Faill. 

 Bot. Paris, p. 53. t. 9. f. 4. Filicula fontana latiori folio ad imum folummodo ramofa. 

 Pluknet. Aim. p. 150. t. 180. f. 6. oranino vidctur. Filix non ramofa major, pinnulis latiuf- 

 culis longioribus, in profundos denticulas divilbs. Hift. Oxon. iii. f. 14. 1.3. f. u. videtur 



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