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ENGLISH MAIDENHAIR 
TRICHOMANES. 
"le leaf-is pinnated ; fie the pinne are rounded, placed regularly, beautiful, a difting. 
Englith Maidenhair. 
Lrichomanes vulgare. 
The root is a tuft of fibres, 
The leaves are numerous, four inches long, 
narrow, and beautifully pinnated ; their colour 
is a dark green 5 and they are glofly, 
The ftalk is black. 
‘The flowers and feeds are brown, 
It is common on damp rocks. 
C. Bauhine calls it Trichomanes s five po Yyerychum 
officinarum. 
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We have three other fpecies. 
1. Branched Englith Maidenhair, Trichomanes 
ramofum. The rib; or ftalik, in this is 
green, 
‘2, Jagged-leaved Englith Maidenhair, Tricho- 
manes foliis eleganter incifis. The pinnz cut_ 
’ deeply. : 
3- Moonwort leaved Englifh Maidenhair, Adi. 
anium nigrum foliis lunarie. 
The pinnae 
rounded. 
VIE. 
FORKED MAIDENHAIR. 
ACROSTICUM 
Ts leaves are very fmall, and have long footttalks : 
and the feeds ftand in toad dots. 
Forked Maidenbair, 
Acropicum vulgare. 
The root confifts of numerous fibres con- 
heéted to a {mall head. 
hey are divided into forked fegments 3 
ments, forming a kind of leaf: this is of a pale 
green: the ftalle i is black at the bottom, pale'up- 
wardis and the feed are placed in round date: 
We have it on damp rockss 
: : C.Bauhine calls it Filix faxatilis... es 
The ftalks are three inches. high; and at the Adiantum furcatum, : 
top each divides into a few flat and forked feg- : 
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MALE’ FERN, 
PLD AL. & 
MA. §, 
HE leaf is pinnated, and.the pinne are. again divided. down-to the rib into oblong feements, 
The ee are pee on the paid: spare of the pinna: in a double feries of roundith fpots. 
. Common Male Fern. 
er mas vulgaris, 
The Toot is thick, irregular, and rough on 
the furface. 
The leaf is two feet Jong, 
‘the pinnae ofa pale green. 
The feeds lie-on the back in-fpots of a aa 
lowifh brown. 
S ere is. commion :in»woods and under hedges. * 
C. Bauhine calls sit Filix nonramofa dentata. 
‘the rib brown, and 
Weyhave eight other fpecies. 
2, Prickly, auriculated Male Fern, Felix mas | 
non-ramofa pinnulis latis.auriculatis fpinofis. 
3. Narrow- leaved prickly Male Fern, Filix acu- 
Teata major pinnulis auriculatis crebrioribus 
foliis anguftioribus. 
76 cre ppukly Male Fern, Filix lonchitidi af: 
Jinis. A {mall plant not five inches high. 
. Broad-leaved prickly Male Fern, Filix mas 
aculeata *folits gall is mufcofa lanugine a- 
Sperfis. 
. Male Fern, swith nn fer, deeply indented 
leaves, Filix unas nou ramofa, pinaulis anguftis 
raris profunde dentatis, 
Creeping Water Fern, Filix,iminor paluftris 
repens dryopteris authorum. "Che leaf .very 
thin: 
. Pale-ftalked Fern, with rcdmaes pinne, 2- 
lix minor pediculo pallidiore alis inferioribus 
deorfum fpectantibus. 
» ‘Male Stone Fern, Filix pumila Sactatilis, It re- 
fembles the dryepteis, but is fmaller. 
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