**' Fe7'tlle leaves dlstijict^ sterile phiitae xvll/i an 
axillary tome^itiim . 
3. O. cinnaniomea L. PI. 3. 
Flllx botryltls V^lrglnlaita . Moris. 1699. Hist. 
3: 593. sect. 14. t 4. f. 3. ^ 
Osmunda arborea . . surciills sejiilnlferis ra- 
dical Ibus, Gron. Fl. Virg. 2 : 196. 
O, clmza^nomea X. 1. c. 1066. Eatoit^ 1. c. 227. 
t. 29. ff. 3-5 ; in Gray, 1. c. 693. Underw. in 
111. Fl. 1:5; Nat. Ferns 77 ; in Britt. 1. c. 4. 
Chite^ 1. c. 2 £5. Waters^ 1. c. 307. 
Cinnamon Fkijn. 
Plants 5-18 dm. higli, clothed with a rusty tomentuni 
when young ; sterile leaves cluste red ; pinnae linear-lan- 
ceolate ; fertile leaves 2-pinnate ; sporecases cinnamon- 
colored. 
T n s a m p s and shaded o o d s . 
O. cuinamomea fro?idosa Eaton (in Gray, 1. c.) with the lower 
pinnae steriTe and the upper spore-bearing, has been ohsei^ved at 
Laurel, Md., hy Pollard ; and \?^x . giaitdulosa Waters {Y^xn Bui. 
lo : 21.) bj Waters a?td Maxon. 
5. POLYPODIUM Theophr. 
Polypodlum a voclbus Graecls iroXv multiim & irovg 
Pes^ quasi dlceretur planta multlpcs ob radlcum for- 
?nam, Tournef. 1700. Inst. 541. 
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