CRYPTGGAMIA FILICES. 667 



- . '\ • POLYPODIUM. Gen. pi. 1 1 79. 



Fru5lijicatmes in pundis fubrotundis, fparfis per 



difcum frondis. 



* Fronde pinnatifida^ lobis coadunatis. 



^ulgare i. POLYPODIUM frondibus pinnitifidis, pinnis ob- 



longis fubferratis obtufis, radice fquamata. 5/?, 



pi. 1544. {Ger. em. 1132./. i. 2. Moris, hift. f. \^, 



t. 2./, I. ordinis Jiiperioris. Blackwelh. 215.) 



Common Polypody. Anglis. 



In the clefts of rocks, on old walls and hpufes, an4 



on the trunks of decay'd trees. %. 

 Th« root is covered with fufcous fcales; the fibres 

 with a dark ferruginous down i the leaves vary, 

 fr0:"n fix to twelve inches in length, and are pin- 

 ' '" ' natifid, or only once pinnated, snd that not 

 it.i .,1 clofe to the middle rib, for the pir.n.ij or lobes 



-'::.' J"" :-' are united at the bale, and are of a lanceolate 

 • i •'■ ■* - form, but obtufe at the end, either entire on the 

 ■^'-■'•"' ' '■ edges, or nightly ferratcd, from half an inch to 

 - '* ■■ an inch and a half long. The fructifications are 

 ''■'■•*■• difpofed in two rows of large circular dots,, 



•'■"■■- * placed one on each fide near the middle nerve 

 of the pinnule. The capfules are nearly globu- 

 lar, and furrounded with a ^ing, at firffc pale^ 

 then orange-colour'd, and fufcous when ripe, 

 r •■ • The lowermod pinnules are frequently barren, 



-■-•'''" from three to eight pairs. 



• j2o There are two varieties of this plant ; the firfl: has 



•'n'"' fci rated pinnules, mentioned by Ray in hls6>'-- 



, ,, vops. 



