<574 Cf^yPTOGAMIA FILICES. 



much in figure, being fometimes acute and fal- 

 cated (which is their mod ufual appearance) at 

 other times truncated and more deeply and 

 < acutely lerrated, which we confider only as va-< 

 rities. 

 The ftalks alfo are fometimes found of a red co- 

 lour, as at the foot of Ben-lomond. 

 ■ ' The frutflifications at firft appear in diftinift round 



/' ■ dots, covered with deciduous fcale?, but, when 



arrived to maturity, they often flow together^ 

 and almoft cover the inferior difc of the leaf. 



delypteris POLYPODIUM fronde fub-bipinnata, pinnis pin- 

 7* natifidis integerrimis, fubtus undique poUine tec- 



tis. Syjl. Nat. edit. it,, p. 788. Mantijs. p. 505. 

 ACROSTICHUM V/,Wjy;)/^m. Sp. p. 1528. 

 {Moris, hifl. f. 14. t. 4. /• 1 7. prima fuperioris or- 

 dinis cS fmifiram. Pluk.t- 17^- f. 3. Frensjlerilis. 

 /. 284./. I. bona.) 



Marfh Polypody. AngVu. 



In boggy places not unfrequent, cfpccially in the 

 lowlands. %. 



The leaves vary from fix inches to a cubit in 

 heif^ht, but are generally about ten inches high, 

 of a pale green colour, at firft view rcfembling 

 the POLYPOD. Filix mas. The llalks arc a 

 little fcaly when young, but fmooth when grown 

 to maturity. The leaves are fiift pinnated witk 

 an uncertain number of pairs, from 20 to 40; 

 thcfc are again pinnatifid, or divided almoft to 



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