CRYP'IOGAMIA FILICES. 671 



Crefled Polypody. JngUs. • . 



In woods and wet rocky places frequent, if. 



It varies from fix inches to a cubit or more in height. 



The ftalk and nerves are covered with brown 



filmy fcales. The outline of the leaf is nearly 



triangular. In moft fpecimens the bafe of the 



leaf is only doubly pinnate ; in many others 



trebly pinnate, and in both the pinnules arr 



again pinnatifid ; their lobes oval-obtufe and 



fharply fcrrated, the ferratures generally a little 



retlex'd. The upper part of the leaf is only 



fimply pinnate, the pinnules pinnatifid, and 



their lobes oval-obtufe, and ferrated, as before. 



At the very extremity of the leaf the finn'^ flow 



together. The fruiflifications are dilpofed in 



numerous fmall dots, in two rows, upon the 



'T , * ' back of the pinnules, as in the reft of the ge- 



•' " ' nus, and are covered at firft with a fcaly involu- 



''.,"'■ crum. Linnaus fays, tliat the upper part of the leaf 



only produces frudifications, and not the lower -, 



in ours the whole is generally fertile, when the 



,:. "; ' . '. the leaf cotnes to maturity. 



jf/jw mAs 5. POLYPODIUM frondibus bipinnatis, pinnis ob- 



:!JD k; tufis crenulatis, flipite paleaceo. Sp. ■pi. 155 1. 



-■h ic {Ger. em. wi'^. f. i. Moris, hiji.f. 14./. ^.y, ^^ 



■ tnelior,Gunv.ert Fhr.Norvegica.F. 1. p. A. tab. I 



■■ ='; ' f'40 



'.^^- • Common Male Fern. /IngUs. 



"'/'•'■ Raineach, GguJis. 



