6f.2 CRYPTOGAMIA FILICES. 



Many of the flalks are barren, producing a lear 

 , , ■' only v^itiiout a fpike. 

 y ■ '. ^ . Others, foinctimes, but very rarely, vary with a 



double or treble fpike. 

 •"* '- " -■- • The common people fometi.Ties make an ointment 

 '^ ' of the frefh leaves, and ufe it as a vulnerary to 



green wounds, which is a very ancient applica- 

 tion, recommended by Af<^//^/^/«j, Tragus, and 

 or hers. 



OSMUND A. Ccn.pL 1172. 

 Sj)ica ramofa, fru6tiiicationibus globofis. 

 * Scapis injidentibus cauH ad Bafm frondis. 

 hnmria 1. QSMUNDA fcapo caulino folitario, fronde pin- 

 nata folitaria. Sp. pi. i^ic). (Ger. em. 405. /. 2- 

 Blackwell t. 420. Moris, hift. f. 14. /. 5./. i, 2, 

 3, 26. Oed. Dan. t. 18, opt.) 

 Moon-wort. Anglis. 



in mountainous pafturcs amongft fine fnort grafs, 

 but not very common. Sibbaid obferved it on 

 j^rdgath-hill, to the North of Linlithgow. \Nc 

 fuw It on dry rocky palfures near Dundonaldh, 

 about two miles from tattle -Loch-Broom, on the 

 Weftt.rn coail of Rofs -/!.>? re., and on a brae be- 

 tween Great and Little Breeze-hill, a mile from 

 Talijkar, in the ifle of %?, &c. "U. V. VI. 

 1 he root is fibrous, the floral ftalk three or four 

 . ' inches high, terminated with a naked, branched 



fpike, the branches leaning one way, to which 

 ate affixed two rows of globular capfules, greerx 



at 



