6iS CRYPTOGAMIA FILICES. 



■ ' ACl^OSTICHUM. Gf;z. p/. 1173. 



'■'•'■"' Frucli fie alio lies difcum tofom iVonclis tegentes. 

 * Fronde fimplici divifa. 

 fepterduo- ACROSTICHUM frondilais nudis linearibus la- 

 ^^^ ^' ciinatis. Sp. pi. 1524. (Ger. etn. 15^1. f. H, Oed. 



Dnn. t. Go. opt.) 

 Foi'ked Fern. AngHs. 

 ■ This growr, out of the clifrs of the rocks abaur 



Arthurs ^eal, at Edinburgh. "4. VII. 

 It grows in tufts, rcfembling at finl fight fome 

 ruflTy grafs. The leaves vary in height from one 

 • ■ to three or tour inches. They are commonly a 



little curved, narrow, linear, and entire at the 

 bafe, but dilated towards the extremity, and di- 

 vided into two or three lanceolate forks or feg- 

 ., , mcnrs, v>/iii.:h are again irregularly cut into two, 



three, or more leffer recurved ones. The frucli- 

 tications make their firll appeirancc on the un- 

 der fide of thefe fegmcnts in fmall lines, like as 

 ^:... ,' ... in \.\\e Afpknium Rula muraria, to which it is 

 rearly allied, bur in the adult plant the inferior 

 . . - difc of the leaf is totally covered Vv'irh brown 



duRy capfules, as is the cafe alfo v^ijh the A. 

 Rtiia muraria., fo that they properly belong both 

 ;. . , ,^ to tlie fame genus. Mr. Talden, 



PTERIS. Gen. pi. J174. ' 

 FrULlificatJones in lineis marginalibus. 



PTERIS 



