663 CRYPTOGAMIA FILICES. 



f!ops. Stirp. BriL p. 117, under the name of Vo- 

 iyp odium rnurcle ■pinnulis Jerratis. Barrel ic. 38. 

 7. cmnbri- The other is the P. (cnmhricuni) frondibiis pinnati- 

 ^'''"' ficlis, pinnis lanceolatis lacero-pinnatifidis ferra- 



tis. Lin. Sp. pL 1546. {Moris, bift.f. 14. /. 2./. 

 8. Phik. aim. t. 30./. i.) 

 Welch or jagged Polypody. Anglis. 

 The pinnules in this are pinnatifid, and their lobes 

 Icrrated. It is certainly no other than a variety 

 of the preceding, as we have had opportunities 

 of deteimming, by obi'erving its different gra- 

 dations. In this ftate it is analogous to a dou- 

 \ le flower amongft the fexual plants, and there- 

 fore never produces fructifications. See AS- 

 PLENIUM Scolopendrium var. y. 

 The roots of Polypody have a fweet naufeous 

 tafte. They were recommended by the ancients 

 as a cathartic to purge away bile and melan- 

 choly, in the quantity of two drachms to a dofe. 

 The moderns have almoft neglected them. Thofe 

 few who retain tl^eir u<e, iccommend an aque- 

 ous extract prepared from them, in obftruftions 

 of the vifcera, or a kind of ptifan made of them 

 for a peftoral. 



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Fronde pinna tn. 



ionchiiis 1. POLYPODIUM frondibus pinnatis, pinnis lanu- 



latis ciliato-ferratis deciinatis, ftipitibus ftrigofis. 



. .. - ^P-P^- 1548. (Ger.em. 1140./. 3. Moris, hijl. f. 



14 /. 2./. I. ordinis inferioris. Oed. Dan. t. 497. 



cpt.) 



Rough 



