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CRYPTOGAMIA FILICES, ^73 



The fame author adds, that this ferrt cut green and 

 dry'd in the open air, affords not only an excel- 

 lent litter for cattle, but, if infufcd in hot water, 

 becomes no contemptible fodder to goats, fheep 

 and other cattle, which will readily eat, and 

 fometimes grow fat upon it : a circumftance well 

 worth the attention of the inhabitants of the 

 Highlands and Hebrides, as great numbers of 

 their cattle, in hard winters, frequently pcrifli 

 for want of food. r: : ' '.-■^:-\-:. 



.mjemina POLYPODIUM frondibus bipinnatis, plnnui;<? 

 lanceolatis pinnatifidis acutis. Sf. pi. 1551 {'Phtk. 

 phyi. t. 180./. 4. Moris, biji. 3. p. 51^- f. 14. 

 /. 3./. 8. bona,) ; ;. _. .. 



Female Polypody. AngUs' 



In woods and moift (hady places, but not fo com- 

 mon as the preceding. %, 



The leaves are a cubit high ; the ftalk generally 

 waved and fmooth, but fometimes fcaly. The 

 ^ii firft divifion of the pinna is diftindt and diftant, 

 thirty or more in the fcries. The nerves fmooth, 

 fine, and flender : the fecond divilion, or the 

 pinnules upon thefe nerves^ are alfo diftinfb, very 

 fine, delicate, and numerous, being upwards of 

 30 pair upon each nerve, of a linear lanceolate 

 form, and femipinnate, the lobes having gene- 

 rally two or three acute ferratures at the extre- 

 mity. Thefe lobes are tender and pellucid, com- 

 monly nine or ten pair in number, varying 

 X X much 



