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wood-banks by the brook below Tecket. It is a lower and flen- 

 derer plant than the former, with fomewhat deeper ferratures at 

 the edges of the pinnules ; otherwife they are pretty much alike, 

 both in the clofenefs of the branches and pinnules, and number 

 and difpofition of the fructifications, which are commonly fix or 

 feven together. 



1 86. The Male-Fern, -with thin-fct deeply-indented leaves (i), is 

 unfrequent about moifl fhadowy rocks. I have obferved it about 

 the large rocks by the brook below Tecket ; alfo below the catc- 

 raft at Honeyclugh, near Chefterwood. The pinnules are much 

 longer than thofe of the former. They are more frequently and 

 deeply crenated, fometimes even to the very nerve. The fructi- 

 fications are in orbicular dots on the back part, about fix in a. 

 group together, perfected in the latter end of autumn. 



187. Dwarf Stone-Fern (k) is in the fifiures of the dry cavernous. 

 parts of the fleep freeftone rocks on both fides of the brook be- 

 low Tecket, fparingly. The root is fibrous and tufted. It fends 

 forth many flalks, four inches long, fmooth, and firm, of a pala 



omnlno. Filix non ramofa latifolia dentata. "Tourn. Inft. p. 536. Polypodium fronde dupli- 

 cato-pinnata : pinnis obtufis coadunatis crenatis. Linn. Flo. Suec. n. 848. Polypodium 

 ramorum pinnis obtufis ellipticis, crenis imis pinnarum bifidts. Hall. Helv. p, 139:' 



(!) Filix petraea femina i. Tabern. p. 793. Icon bona. Filix mas non ramofa, pinnulis-an- 

 guftis rarioribus profunde dentatis. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 579. f. 14. t.- 3. f. 8. bene. Pluknet. 

 Phyt. p. 130. t. i jO. f. 4. Raj. Hift. p. 144. Syn. iii. p. 121. Polypodium fronde tfu- 

 plicato-pinnata, pinnulis lanceolatis, acutis, pinnatifidis. Linn. Flo. Lapp, nv 386. Flo;- 

 Suec. n. 847. Royen. lugdb. p. 499. Hall. Helv* p. 140. 



(k) Adianthum album. Label. Adverf. p. 361. Icon. p. 810. omnino uideiur. Filicula-' 

 fontana. Tabern. p. 792. Filicula fontana minor, C. B. Pin. p. 358. Polypodium pinJ- 

 narwn pinnis bidentatis, & tridentatis, breviflirais.- liail, Helv> p. 140. 



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