CRYPTOGAMIA FILICES. 651 



. ..; ' much ufcd by the whitefmiths and cabinet- 



makers, under the name of Butch rufhes. 



. ,;,• ' \n Northumberland the dairy-maids icour and clean 



their milk-pails with it. 

 Some entertain an opinion that if cows chance to 

 feed upon it, their teeth will drop out. How 

 true this may be I know not, but I am perfuadcd 



]' that the padure muft be very bad where they 



are compelled to eat fuch food. 



OPHIOGLOSSUM. Gen. pL iiyi. 



5/;Vrt articulata, diflicha; articulis tranfverfim de- 



hifcentibus, 



Vulgatumi OPHIOGLOSSUM fronde ovate. Sp. pi. 1518. 



{Ger. fw. 404. /. I, 2. Moris, hijt. f. 14. /, 5, 



figures ima. Blackzvell t. 416. Oed. Dan. t. 147, 



opt.) 



Adder's Tongue. Anglis. 



In meadows and moift pailurcs, but not very com- 

 mon, as about Dunfiunane hill. In Gourie, &c. 

 it.V. 



The root is fibrous, the ftalk varies in height from 

 a finger's length to a fpan or more, and is ter- 

 ,, : . rninated with a green, dillichous, jointed tongue- 



fhap'd ipike, fubtended by a fingle, long-oval, 

 fucculcnt nervelefs, fmooth leaf, which embraces 

 the {talk with its bafe. 'J he joints or articula- 

 tions burft tranfvferely when ripe, and throw our 

 numerous roundifh feeds as fauH as dult. 



