6-2 CRYPTOGAMIA FILICES. 



veral places of the lowlands, as upon the rocl<s 

 on the South fide of the water of £<?, a little 

 below the Hollas ; and upon the rocks at the 

 - ■ ' ■ foot of the fandy holm on Gknkill-Burn, in the 

 p&n(h of Kirkmicbael, m Vumfriesjhire^ &c. 

 The flalks are branched, and creep amongfl the 

 mofs. The leaves are about an inch high, of 

 fine pellucid green colour when young» but 

 brown in decay. They are alternately pinnate, 

 the pitiTt^ generally bifid, often dichotomous, 

 'he lobes of a long elliptic form, finely ferrated 

 on the edges, decurrent, or divided each in the 

 middle by a darii nerve. 

 The fruftifications arifc in fingle globules from the 

 rdgcs of the lobes near the angles of the ra- 

 m'.fications, and are compofed of two foliaceous 

 grten valves, containing feveral fmall brown 



PJLULARiA. Gsn. fl, 1183. 



Flores mafcuJi ad latus frondis, 



l^ru6lificationes/(?w;zrf<!?ad radicem, globofsj qua- 



driloculares. 



gl§)ulihr» PILULARIA. Sp. pi. 1563. (Pet. herb. t. 9./. 8, 

 *° Vaill. Pari;, t. \^. f. 6. Dilkn. muf. t. y<^.f. 1. 



hona. Oed. Bnn. L 223. opJ.) 

 Pepper- grafs. Anglis. 



jn damp places that have been overflowed during 

 the winter, but not common. 1U Vl-YK, 



It 



