CRYPTOGAMIA FILICLS, ^79 



■ ' ' holm and Broomholm^ in EJkdale, and abour Dun- 



keld^ in Stmnount^ &c. •«• 

 The plant ;is about a foot high •, the llalk flender, 

 fmooth, brittle, and naked above half way xip, 

 afterwards doubly pinnate, the phm^ Handing 

 oppofite, and afiuming a triangular divifion. 

 The pinnules are fubdivided almoft to the nerve, 

 the lobes of a linear obtufe form, the lower 

 Ones crenated on the edges, the upper ones often 

 entire, and running together. The /"/nw^ in this 

 fpecies do not grow exadly perpendicular, but 

 decline towards the horizon. The fructifications 

 are difpofed in two rows of large round dots 

 upon each lobe, which, when ripe, expand and 

 cover the inferior fide of the leaf. 

 The pinn^ are about 12 or 15 pair, their fubdivi- 

 fions nearly the fame, fmooth, of a pale green 

 colour. The outline of the leaf approaches 

 near to an ec^uilateral triangle. 



Fru^fijicaticnes in maculis tcrminalibus, fub repli- 

 cato margine frond is. 



catillus ise- ADIANTUM frondibus decompofitis, foliolis al- 

 neris i. ternis, pinnls cuneiformibus lobatis pedicellatls. 



Sp. fl. 1558. (Ger. emac. 1143./. i. Moris, hiji, 

 . . /.I4.^5./. 6.) 



True Maidenhair. Anglis.%, 

 I Dr. Sihthorpe^ the prefent mofl obliging profefibr 



' ; • , . of botany, at Oxford^ favoured me with the 



fight of a large and perfed fpecimen of this 



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