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1. Common Polypody. The root is a gentle purge, 
Polypodium vulgare. We have three other {pecies. 
The root is long and thick; and creeps juft | 1. Serrated Polypody, P olypodium murale pinnulis 
at the furface. ; Jerratis. ‘This has been fuppofed a variety 
The plant is a foot rete but is really a diftin& {pecies. 
The footftalk is of a nurplil brown. 2. Laciniated Polypody of Wales, Polypodium 
The leaf is of a deep green on the forefide, _ Cambro Britanicum pinnulis ad margines laci- 
and paler behind ; and the flowers and feeds are niatis, 
placed there in round fpots of a yellowith brown. 3» Broad Polypody, Palybodiuin ihtenfe. On 
It is common in woods and under hedgess - the tops'of the Weléh mountains. - 4 
C, Bavhine calls it Polypodium vulgare. 
RO Geet SPLEENWORT. 
TNOPN Gale TAGS 1, SPE R&A: 
HE leaf is Eertinucd | in final fegments to the bafeof the foorftalks . The leaves thet have ripe 
rT feeds curl up. 
Rough Spleenwort, The feeds are very numerous, and brown ; 
Lonchi tis afpera vulgaris. and ‘the leaves on which they are placed curl up.- 
Itas.commion on heaths. 
The root is compofed of danumierdble fibres. C. Bauhine calls it Lonchitis.a/pera minor. 
The leaves are very long, and narrow; and ; 
are divided down:'to thé middle, rib) into, fine | . We have one other fpecies. 
fegments: the colour is a dark’green. 1, Rough Spleenwort, .with indented fegments, 
The fegments.are longifh, in the middle, Lonchitis afpera major. On the Welch 
and fmaller to the bafe of the footftalk, as alfo to ‘mountains. 
the point. 
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GRE leaf is fimply, and not deeply, divided. The fegments are abtufe; and the flowers and 
feeds cover the back of the-leafin-é ‘continued mafs. 
Common fmooth Spleenwort. The forefide of the leaf is a dark green; the 
Afplenium ‘vulgare. i bacifide is covered with a browa powder, « 
The root is a tuft of fibres. We have it on old walls. 238d 
The leaves rife in great clufters ; and they are . Cc Bauhine calls it Ceterach officinarum. 
five inches long, narrow, and ‘flightly divided, or) ere 
finuated at the edge. i} Itis agree ane for obftrutions of the 
“The feoments are obtufe, and hotrexadtly ‘op- spite: 
Pei te to one-another. 
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DWARF. F E'RN; 
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tae leaf has a naked footftalk ; and is compofed of many pairs of difting pinnz. The feeds 
are placed in dots. 
Dwarf Sea-Fern. We have it on old walls at the fea-fide. 
Chame filix maritima, ool -C. Bauhine calls it Filcula maritima. 
The root is a tuft of black fibres. r n aes 
The leaves are numerous, and three inches | We liave one other fpecies. 
long: theirftalk. is-black. §. Dwarf Rock Fern, Chama filix alpina pedicn- 
The pinnee are of a deep green on the forende, laris rubre foliis. The fegments jagged. . 
and pale behind, with the feed in dots. 
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