664 CRYPTOGAMIA FILICES. 



Linnaus to call this fpecies, A. Trichomanes ra- 



mofum. 



tfsarimm 5, ASPLENIUM frondibus pinnatis, pinnis obovatis 

 ferratis, fuperne gibbis obtufis, bafi cuneatis. 

 Sp. pL 1540. (Ger. em. 11 43 /. 4. Moris, hijl. f 

 14. /. 3-/. 25. bona. Pluk. t. 2^7,. f. 5. Pet.Gaz. 

 /. 91./. 1. opt.) 

 Sea Fern, or Maidenhair. Avglis, 



Out ot" the rocks by the fea fide in many places, 

 as in the coves at IFeems^ on the coaft of Fife ; 

 in the ifle of Arran, out of the rocks going 

 from Carry to Brcdrick caflle, and in the caves 

 at Dummadoon, in jhe fime ifland •, in Sanick- 

 Cave-, in the ifland of Ifla, &c. "U. 



The leaves vary from three inches to a foot in 

 length. T he ftalks are fmooth, and generally 

 of a red fufcous colour, ei'pecialiy at the bafe. 

 The rib is fometimes of the fame colour. The 

 ^pimicc are ufually three quarters of an inch long, 

 but vary from half an inch to an inch long. 

 They are nearly of a rhomboidal form, fcrrated 

 ■ ■ on the edges, gibbous at the bafe on the upper 



fide, but refcinded on the lower, and vary in 

 number from eight pairs to twenty. The fruc- 

 tifications are dilpofed in lines, making an acute 

 angle with the nerve, which lines vary from three 

 to nineteen, and do not run together, but con- 

 tinue diftinft Vv'hen the capfules are ripe= 



