CRYPTOGAMIA FIUCE5. ^-js 



'^^ -■"'■ the nerve, into 15 or 20 pair of oval, entire 



lobes. The fruftifications make their firft ap- 

 pearance in two rows of fmall, round, pale, 

 diftinft dots, nealr the edges of thele lobes. 

 •'■"•' Thefe dotsj as they grow riper, run together in 



marginal lines, the edges of the lobes being a 

 little reflex*d or contradted ; and in the old plants 

 the under fides of the lobes are totally covered 

 with brown capfules, as in the genus of ACROS- 

 TICHUM. The fruflifications are contained 

 within a fingular laciniated, or radiated involu- 

 crum. The capfules are pale brown, and fur- 

 rounded with a dark red articulated Ihining ring. 

 The young&r leaves are baTen, and fofter than the 

 fruitful ones ; their pinnules wider, and of 2, 

 paler green •, Ibmetimes flightly and irregularly 

 erenatcd. 



dculeaiumU POLYPODIUM frondibus bipinnatis, pinnis lu- 

 nulatis ciliato-dentatis, ftipite ftrigofo. Sp. pi 

 1552. {Pluh t. 179-/- 6. junior plania. 180. f. ;, 

 adulla. Moris, hift. f. 14- ^- 3- f- ^5- opt.) 

 Prickly Polypody. Anglis. 



in woods and ihady places, as about Brmnlanrig, 



in Nithfdak, and on Cartlaud rocks, near La- 



nerk, &c. '^. 



The leaves are generally near a cubit high, of a 



firm and rigid texture. The ftalk is remarkably 



- ■ - ' fealy, the bafe efpecially is covered with nume- 



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