BRITISH HERBAL 
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Plants whofe flowers and frze: are minute and fingly siasnipal 3 and are 
produced on the back of their leaves. 
be kept together in the modern arrangements of botany. Their parts of fructification are 
too minute and obfcure to have given opportunities to.thofe who favour the prefent 
method, to blend them among the other genera. 
Linnzus ranges them with the moffes and other fuch kinds under the term cryptogamia. 
Tee are a feries of plants perfeétly diftinét from all others ; and they have the fortune to 
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HARTS-TONGUE. 
‘PHYLLITIS. 
T EIE plant confifts of an undivided leafs. and the feeds are difpofed in long, ftreaks on the 
back. 
x. Common Harts-tongue. It is common in wells and other damp, fhady 
Phyliitis vulgaris. places. 
There are three varieties of this plant, which 
have been defcribed as diftinét {pecies. 
1. The fingered Harts-tongue, Phyllitis multifida. 
ting: plant: In this the leaves'are fplit into feveral ftrait feg- 
The footftalk is fhort, blackith, and downy. | nents at the top. 2. Crofs-jagged Harts-tongue, 
The leaf is very long, hollowed at the bate, Phyllitis cruciata, The fegments crofling one 
pointed at the end, and of a fine green. another. And, 3. Dwarf Harts-tongue, Pdyl- 
The lines of feeds are brown. litis minima. — Two inches high. 
‘The root is a tuft of black fibres. 
The leaves are numerous; and each is a dif- 
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rE leaf has a naked footftalk, and is divided into long fegments. The flowers ftand on the 
back in round fpots. : 
We Lil 6'S* 1. Common 
