The 
BRITISH HERBAL. 
529 
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“N aU: 8 
XIl, 
BLACK MAIDENHAIR, 
“2D LANG U MEN TG RiU mE 
“THE leaf has a long footftalk. The pine are fubdivided into broad, jagged fegments, The 
feeds are placed in lines. 
1. Black Maidenhair. 
Adiantum nigrum vulgare. 
The plant is ten inches high. 
The ftalk is naked, and of a gloffy black. 
The pinne are broad, of a dark green, and 
deeply cut. 
The feeds ftand in rows on the under-fide. 
It is common in woods. 
C. Bauhine calls it Adiantum foliis longioribus 
pulverulentis. 
We have fix other fpecies, 
1. Baftard-hemlock-leaved Maidenhair,- Adian- 
tum nigrum pinnulis cicutarie divifura. A 
tender plant. 
2. Small, flowering, Black Maidenhair, Adi- 
antum crifpum alpinum. .Thefe two are by 
fome called white maidenbairs. 
3. Round-leaved Black Maidenhair, Fix elegans 
adianto nigro accedens Jegmentis rotundioribus. 
4. Dwarf Black Maidenhair, Filix pumila petrea 
adianti nigit emula. Scarce two inches 
high. 
5. Fine cut Black Maidenhair, Filix minor longi- 
Solia pinnulis tenuiffimis laciniatis, In Ireland. 
6. Winged Maidenhair, Adiantum nigrum alato 
caule, ‘The leaves gloffy and dark. green.” 
This is the compleat lift of Englifh ferns and 
capillary plants. 
Many virtues are attributed to them ; but ex- 
perience does not fupport the account: The 
common male fern and the ofmund royal are cele- 
brated againft the rickets ; and many have tried 
them, but unfuccefsfully. The Maidenbairs are 
eminently good ‘againft diforders of the breaft 
and lungs. 
The END of te THIRTY-FOURTH CLASS. 
Ne 52. 
