OF TREES AND PLANTS. 257 



thofe below the fmall cataract in Honey c lug h, near Chejlervuooa'.. 

 The ftalk is chaffy. The branches are gradually fhorter all the 

 way up. Two, and fometimes four, pair of the pinnules are 

 diftinct and auriculate, but many of them run into one great 

 fegment. The folioles are prickly at the edges, and lanceolatcd 

 at the ends ; of a lively glofTy green on the upper part, and rough 

 underneath. The fructifications are on the under difk, in orbi- 

 culated or round dots, in a double feries, in number fourteen, 

 perfected in the latter end of autumn. It makes very different 

 appearances according to its different ftages of growth, and fitu- 

 ation. Seminal plants, about moift dripping rocks, afllime the 

 form of the fne-cut Stone-fern, and continue fo for about a year 

 under culture, with tumid confpicuous veins, and then change 

 to the ftate defcribed. 



195. T\\.e great, prickly, auriculate Male- Fern (t), a variety of the 

 former, is on the wood-bank, under the fleep rocks, below Tecket. 

 It differs from it by its fize, and the number of diftincl: pinnules, 

 even to ten pair, which are auriculate. In other refpects it is 



like it*. 



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qua vel ad duas vel ad unam vide n t ur reduci poffi.) Polypodium pinnis ratnorum pauciflimis 

 diftindtis, & auriculatis, oris eiliaribus. Hall. Helv, p. i 42. 



(t} Filix aculeata major. C. B. Pin. p. 358. mas. Prodr. p. 151. Filix Lonchitidi af- 

 finis. I. B. iii. p. 739. Lonchitis aculeata major. Tourn. Inft. p. 538. Filix mas pinnu- 

 latis latis auriculatis fpinofis. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 580. t. 3. f. 15. Icon optima. Raj. Syn. iii. 

 p. 121. non autem PLUKENETI, t. 79. f. 6. Filix mas aculeata noftras alis expands muf- 

 cofa lanugine teftis Pluknet. p. 151. t. 180. f. r. Omr.ino viJetur, etfi diftinguat Rajas, 

 Syn. iii. p. 121. Polypodium pinnis ramorum plerifque diftin<3is, auriculatis, eiliaribus. 

 Hall. Helv. p. 142. 



* Olim C. BAUHINL*S fuam aculeatam majorem multis modis ludere deprehendit, ut Qt,. 

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