CRYPTOGAMIA FILICES. ^sz 



. : at firft, bat yellow when ripe, and burfting ver- 

 tically from the top to the bafc. Theie capfules 

 >y.v', • are divided by an annular zone, and contain nu- 

 • ..-, rr.erous, oval, dull-like feeds. Below the bafe 

 ^; .. . of the fpike is affixed to the ilalk a pinnated 

 • leai', confiding of thick, fucculent fan-fhap'd 

 :.,.,,. _ . pinnc, from three to eight pairs, with an odd 

 one at the end. 

 n^ It varies fometimes with a leaf more or lefs com- 

 V •.-■; : pounded, or doubly pinnated, as may be icea 

 V . in the figures above referred to. 



It has a vulnerary quality like the preceding. 



. tiuu'O. 



•_.,'*** Fronde ipfa fru5iijicationes fcrenle. 



OSMUNDA frondibus bipinnatis apice racemife- 

 ris. Sp. pi. 1521. Cer. enu 1131. Moris, bi/t. f. 

 14- /. 4. /. I. crdinls inf.ird, OtJ- Dan. t. 217. 

 opt.) 



Flowering Fern, or Ofmund Royal. Jnglis. 



Royal Brachens. Scoiis. 



It grows in begs, on the borders of lakes, and our 

 of rocks by the fea-ndc in many places. We 



* obferved it :n the following: At Com jlraden., by 

 the fide of Loch-Lomond:, in the ifle of Eute, 

 near Mr. Stuart -, in Arran., out of the rocks by 

 the fea fide s-oinrr from Carry to Brodrick caflle, 

 and out of the rocks at the caves of Dumma- 

 doon ; in IJIa, by the fides ot Locb-Gnira, abun- 

 dantly ; in Colonfa and Midly dec. Sihbald alfo 



©bferved 



