u;8 CRYPTOGAMIA FILICES. 



dented on the edges, and about four or five pair, 

 with an odd one at the end upon each pinnule. 

 The fructifications are round dots, white at firftj 

 larce for the fize of the lobes, brown and con- 

 fluent when ripe, and covering the under fide 

 of the leaf, as in the genus of ACROSTI- 

 CHUM. 

 J-Lilicr and IVcis are of opinion, that the POLY- 

 POD. Rhceticum. Lin. Sp. pi. 1552, is no other 

 than a variety of the preceding. Sec Ger. emac. 

 J 142, /. 3. Moris, hijl.f. 14. /. 4. /. 28. Pluk, 

 379./. 5/* Iccundum fynonym. fed fig, dlfilmiJis. 

 'The leaves of this are nearly a foot high, of a 



•. ' - more tender iubllance, a paler green colour, and 

 wider than the foregoing ; the pinnce more nu- 

 merous, from 15 to 20 pair, placed at a more 

 acute angle with the rib. The pinnules are 

 longer and wider, their lobes nearly lanceolate 

 and acutely ferratcd. 



The fruftifications are commonly fmaller, and 



niore difi.inft. 



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■■'■*■ Fronde fnp'adecompofita. 



dryjfUrh. POL YPO Dill M frondibus fupradecompofitis, 



lO. - foliolis lernis bipinnatis. &p. fl. 1555. (Ger. em. 



1 135. /. 3. Moris, hijh f. 14. /. 4. /. ,5. hona. 



•;.:•; Amnan, Comment. Acad. Fctrap. T. X. />. 301, 



'.I'p.h, 22, /. 2.) 



, .-Small-branched Polypody. Anglis. ■'* 



Tn dry floney places nor uncommon, as at Lang- 



ho In?- 



