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fructification on the backfide of the Frondes, 

 Xhey conilitute the firft order in the clafs Cry- 

 ptogamla-, and confifl: of i6 genera, which are 

 divided into fruiiijicat'iones fpkata, frondofa, & 

 radicales. This order comprehends the entire 

 xvi"" clafs of Tournefort, in v/hofe fyftem the 

 Filices make only a fingle genus, in the finl fec- 

 tion of the above-mentioned clafs, 



Filices, an order of plants in the Fragmenta 

 mclbodi naturalis of Linnseus. 



FILIFORMIS Fllamentum, Stylus, Recetia- 

 culum \_Filum, a thread, & forma, form or 

 fhape] of an equal thicknefs from top to bot- 

 tom, oppofed to Jtibulatus. 



FIMBRICATA Fetak {Fimlma, a harder, 

 or fringe] fringed, as in the Mcnyantbcs^ Pof- 

 fifiora, 



FISSUM Foliwn \}. fiddor, to be cloven] cleft, 

 or divided half-way down, its finufcs being li- 

 near and mai'gins ftraight, fmuhus linearihus, 

 7naroimhus reSlis : accordins^ to the number of 

 diviiions it is called bif.diim, trifidum, quadrijidum^ 

 quinquejidura, muliifidimi. It difiers from the 

 Lohatum in its fiffures not being fo deep, nor 

 concave, nor wide ; and from Parlilum, in be- 

 ing divided only half-way down, 



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