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Th BRITISH HERBAL. 
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IX. 
WHITE MAIDENHAIR. 
ADIANTUM ALBUM. 
HE leaf has a naked footftalk, and confifts of a few broad, thick divifions. 
cover the whole under-furface. 
1. White Maidenhair. 
Adiantum album. 
The root is a tuft of fibres. 
The leaves are‘numerous, and two inches high- 
The ftalk is of a pale green; and the leaf is 
alfo of a whitifh green on the upper-fide, and 
covered with a whitifh duft underneath. 
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The feeds 
It is common on old walls. 
C. Bauhine calls it Ruta muraria, 
We have one other fpecies. 
2, Narrow-leaved, tall, White Maidenhair, 447. 
antum album elatius pinnulis anguftioribus. 
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TRUE MATD EW H AIR, 
CAPILLUS VENERIS. 
"THE leaf has a long footftalk ; and is divided into numerous, broad fegments. The feeds are 
placed in white lines at their edges. 
The True Maidenhair. 
Capillus veneris verus. . 
The root confifts of numerous fibres. 
The ftalk is black and gloffy. 
The plant is fix inches high. 
“The pinnz are of a pale green; and the rows 
of feeds below are whitifh. 
We have it in Wales. 
C, Bauhine calls it Adiantum foliis coriandri. 
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We have three other fpecies. 
1. Tunbridge Maidenhair, Capillus veneris pu/il- 
lus foliis bifidis vel trifidis. 
2. Great Maidenhair, Capillus veneris pediculo 
pallide rubente. A plant of a foot high, 
3. Green Scotifh Maidenhair, Capillus veneris folio 
obtufo faturate viridi. 
After thefe there ftands in the Synopfs Stirpium 
Britanicarum, an imaginary plant. A leaf of the 
white wood anemone, 
XI. 
EE.MjyA LE 1iFERN 
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HE leaf is compofed of very numerous pinne, on fubdivided footftalks. The feeds are placed 
- in round dots. 
1. Common Female Fern: 
Filix femina vulgaris. 
The plant is five feet high. 
The ftalk is thick and green. 
The pinnz are oblong, and of a pale green; 
and the feeds are placed on their back in {mall, 
round, ferrugineous dots. 
It is common on heaths. 
C. Bauhine calls it Fix ramofa major pinnulis 
obtufis now dentatis. Others, Filix feemina. 
We have fix other fpecies. 
2. Great, Branched Fern, with indented leaves, 
Filix: ramofa pinnulis dentatis. The leaves 
dark green. 
3. Small, branched Mountain Fern, Filix mon- 
tana ramofa minor argute denticulata. 
4. Ofmund Royal, Filix ramofa non dentata flo- 
rida. The feeds cluftered on the tops of the 
branches. 
5- Small, branched, Sea, Stone Fern, Filicula 
fanatilis ramofa maritima. Of a pale green. 
6. Dwarf, branched Fern, Filix ramofa minor. 
This is the plant called dryoptris by Tragus. 
7. Fine cut Stone Fern, with fender, brittle: 
ftalks, Filiw fawatilis caule tenui fragili. 
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