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RITISH HERBAL. 
CLASS XXXIV. 
Plants 'whofi flowers and feeds are minute and fingly mconfpkuous ; and are 
■produced on the back of thetr leaves. 
THESE are a feries of plants perfeffly diBma from all others •, and they have the fortune to 
"bfk!pt together it, the modern arrLgements of botany. Their parts » J™* -,on are 
too minute and obfcure to have given opportun.fes to thofe who favour the prcfenC 
^IS :h:m mJ^l^X ^ch ..ds under the term 
GENUS I. 
HARTS-TONGUE. 
P H r L L I T IS. 
'J-HE plant confifts of an undivided leaf; and 
back. 
I. Common Harts-tongue. 
Phyllilii vulgaris. 
The root is a tuft of black fibres. 
The leaves are numerous i and each is a dif- 
tina plant. 
The footftalk is (hort, blackilh, and downy. 
The leaf is very long, hollowed at the bafc, 
pointed at the end, and of a fine green. 
The lines of feeds are brown. 
the feeds are. difpofed in long ftreaks on the 
It is common in wells and other damp, lhady 
places. 
There are three varieties of this plant, which 
have been defcribed as diftinft fpecies. 
1 . The fingered Harta-tongue, Phyllitismultijida. 
In this the leaves are fplit into feveral ftrait feg- 
ments at the top. 2. Crofs-jagged Harts-tongue, 
Phyllitis cruciata. The fegmenis croffing one 
another. And, 3. Dwarf Harts-tongue, Pij/- 
litis mitima. Two inches high. 
GENUS II. 
POLYPODY. 
POLTPODIVM. 
pHE leaf has » naked footftalk, and is divided into long fegments. The flowers ftand on the 
back in round fpots. 
N» UI. 
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I. Common 
