The BRITISH HERBAL. 
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VI. 
ENGLISHMAIDENHAIR. 
TRIG ROMANES. 
•HE leaf is pinnated; and the pinn^ are rounded, placed regularly, beautiful, and diftim^T;. 
Englifli Maidenhair. 
richomams vtdgare. 
The root is a tuft of fibres. 
The leaves are numerous, fouf inches long, 
narrow, and beauci(ul]y pinnated : their colour 
is a dark green ; and they are glofiy. 
The ftalk is black. 
The flowers and feeds are brown. 
It is common on damp rocks. 
C. Bauhine calls it Trichomanes five polytrychim 
officinarum. 
We have three other fpecies. 
. Branched Englilh Maidenhair, 'Trichomanes 
ramofum. The rib, or Iblk, in this is 
green. 
, Jagged-leaved Englifh Maidenhair, Tricho- 
manes foliis elegant er uicifn. The pinna; cut 
deeply. 
. Moonworc leaved Englifh Maidenhair, AM- 
antum yiigrum foliis lunaria. The pirin£ 
rounded. 
GENUS VII. 
FORKED MAIDENHAIR. 
ACROSriCUM. 
THE leaves are very fmall, and have long fqotflalks : they are divided into forked fegments i 
and the feeds ftand in round dots. 
Forked Maidenhair. 
Acrojlicum vulgare. 
The root confifts of numerous fibres con- 
neded to a fmall head. 
The ftalks are three inches high -, and at the 
top each divides into a few flat and forked feg- 
ments, forming a kind of leaf : this is of a pale 
green: the ftalk is black at the bottom, pale up- 
wards; and the feed are placed in round dots. 
We have it on damp rocks. 
C. Bauhine calls it Filix faxatHis. Others, 
Adiantum furcatum. 
S N U S 
MALE FERN. 
VIIL 
F I L I X 
M A S. 
THE leaf is pinnated, .and the pihnnf; are again divided down to the rib into oblong fegments. 
The feeds are placed on the hinder pare oi the pinn:E in a double feries of roundifh fpots. . ■ 
I. Common Male Fern. 
Filix mas vulgaris. 
The root is thick, irregular, and rough on 
tlie furface. 
The leaf is two feet long, the rib brown, and 
the pinnfc of a pale green. 
The feeds lie on the back in fpOts of a ycl- 
lowifli brown. 
It is common in woods and under Hedges. 
C. Bauhine calls it Filix notiranwfa dentata. 
We have eight ot|ier fpecies. 
2. Prkkly, auriculated Male Fern, Felix mas 
tion umofa pinnulis latis auriculatis fpinofis. 
3. Narrow-leaved prickly Male Fern, Filix am- 
ieata major pinnulis aurkulatis crehrioribus 
foliis angujUoribus, 
4. Dwarf prickly Male Fern, Filix lonchitidi af- 
fnis. A fmall plant not Bve inches high. 
5. Broad-leaved prickly Male Fern, Filix mas 
aculeata foliis expanfis mufcofa lanugim a- 
fperfis. 
6. Male Fern, with thin fet, deeply indented 
leaves, Filix mas noti ramofa pinnulis angujlis 
raris frofunde dentatis. 
7. Creeping Water Fern, Filix minor pnlujiris 
repens dryoperis authorum. The leaf very 
thin. 
8. Pak-ftalked Fern, with drooping pinn!e, Fh 
lix minor pedicuh pallidiore alis tnferioribus 
dsorfum fpe5iantibus. 
9. Male Stone Fern, Filix ptmila fax atilis. It re- 
femblcs the dryopteis^ but is fmaller. 
GENUS 
