054 CRYt>TO(^AMIA FTLICES. 



cbferved plenty of it in Haining wood, in 5/^f-. 

 Ihr^/Ijire, ^.V J I, VIII. 

 The root is thick, externally fibrous, and covered 

 v.ith thin brown fcales. The Fro;? j, or leaf, is a 

 ; • vai-d high, doubly pinnated, the pinnuU varying 



Irom fix to ten pair, with an odd one at the end, 

 each about two inches long, lanceolate and en- 

 tire, divided by a middle rib, from both fides 

 of whicli arife numerous fine bifid and dichoto- 

 mous nerves, their ramifaclions capillary and 

 parallel. The central leaves arc terminated with 

 a doubly pinnate branch of frudtifications j the 

 pinnu/a awl-fiisp'd, and crowded with fefllle 

 dufiers of globular capfules, green when young, 

 yellowifh brown when ripe, and burfting verti- 

 cally •, the external leaves are barren. 

 This is theiargeil and mofl fpecious of all the 

 BritJfrj ferns. 



**« l^roiidibns aliis foUaceis^ aliis fri(£fificantibus. 



fpicant ^\ OSMUNDAfrondibuslanceolatis pinnatifidis, ia- 

 ciniis confluentibus integerrimis parallelis. Sp. 

 pi 1522. (G^r. em. 1140./. 2. Moris, hiji. f. 14. 

 /. 2,/. 23. Oed. Dan. /. 99. opi^) 



Rough Spleen- wort. Anglis. 



In woods and heaths. "4. VII. VIII. 



The leaves are of a long elhptic-lanceolate form, 

 pinnatifid, and grow in a circle reclining towards 

 ihe ground. The exterior ones are perennial and 



barren, 



