crifpa 4. 



CRYPTOGAMIA FILICES. 655 



barren, the central ones annual and fertile. The 

 fegments, or pinna, are numerous, lanceolate 

 and entire, curved a little upwards, longeft in 

 the middle of the leaf, and fhorter by degrees 

 towards the top and the bafe. The floral leaves 

 are erc6t and long, the middle rib of a dark red, 

 the pinna much narrower j all of them fertile, 

 and the fruftifications difpofed on the under 

 fides, in two longitudinal parallel lines, at firft 

 of a yellow colour, but brown when ripe, and 

 then covering the whole dilk. 



OSMUNDA frondibus fupradecompofitis, pinnis 

 alternis fubrotundis incifis. !>p. pi, 1522. {Pluk. 

 t. 3./. 2. Moris, hiji. 3. p. s^^.f. 14. /. 4./. 4. 

 Oed. Dan. t. 496) 



Crifped fern. Parfley Fern. Anglis. 



Amongft the rocks and ilones upon the highland 

 mountains. Mr. Stuart. We obferved it upon 

 the top of Ben-na-Caillichy in the parifh of Chrijt- 

 Church, in the iflc of Skye. "U. VIlI. 



The exterior leaves are barren, fmooth, and trebly 

 pinnate 5 the extreme pinnuU of an obtufe rhom- 

 boidal figure, plain, and dented on the edges. 

 The central ones are fertile, trebly pinnate, the 

 exterior /»/«««Z;f oval, convex, pedunculate, their 

 edges contrafted, and the under fides covered 

 with yellow duft-like fructifications, 



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