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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
GENUS IX. 
WHITE MAIDENHAIR. 
ABIANTUM ALBUM. 
'J'HE leaf has a naked footftalk, and confifts of a few broad, thick divlHons. The feeds 
cover the whole under-furface. 
I . White Maidenhair. 
Adiantum album. 
The root is a tuft of fibres. 
The leaves are numerous, and two inches high- 
The ftaik is of a pale green ; and the leaf is 
alfo of a whitilh green on the upper- fide, and 
covered with a whitifli duft underneath. 
It is common on old walls. 
C. Bauhine calls it Ruta mio-aria. 
We have one other fpecies. 
. Narrow-leaved, tall. White Maidenhair, jidi- 
antiim album elaSius pinnuUs angufiioribus. 
GENUS X. 
TRUE MAIDENHAIR. 
CAP ILLUS VENERIS. 
'Y'HE leaf has a long footftalk ; and is divided into numerous, broad fegments. The feeds arc 
placed in white lines at their edges. 
The True Maidenhair. 
Capillus veneris verus. 
The root confifts of numerous fibres. 
The rtalk is black and glofly. 
The plant is fix inches high. 
The pinns: are of a pale green ; and the rows 
of feeds below are whitifh. 
We have it in Wales. 
C. Bauhine calls it Adiantum foliis coriandri. 
We have three other fpecies. 
1. Tunbridge Maidenhair, Capillus veneris pufil- 
lus foliis bifidis vel trifidis. 
2. Great Maidenhair, Capillus I'eneris pediculo 
pallide mbente. A plant of a foot high. 
3. Green Scotifh Maidenhair, Capillus veneris folio 
obtufo faturate viridi. 
After thefe there ftands in the Synopjs Stirpium 
Briianicarum, an imaginary plant. A leaf of the 
white wood anemone. 
GENUS XL 
FEMALE FERN. 
F I L 1 X F CE M 1 N A. 
■^HE leaf is compofed of very numerous pinna;, on fubdivided footftalks. The feeds are placed 
in round dots. 
I. Common Female Fern. 
FiHx ftemina vulgaris. 
The plant is five feet high. 
The ftalk is thick and grecji. 
The pinns arc oblong, and of a pale green ; 
and the feeds arc placed on their back in fmall- 
round, ferrugtncous dots. 
It is common on heaths. 
C. Bauhine calls it Fi/ix ramofa major pinmlis 
chtufts r.on dentalis. Others, Filix famina. 
We have fix other fpecies. 
2. Great, Bfanched Fern, with indented leaves, 
Filix ramofa pinnuUs dentatis. The leaves 
dark green. 
, Small, branched Mountain Fern, Filix mon- 
tana ramofa minor argute denticulata. 
Ofmund Royal, Filix ramofa non dentata jla- 
rida. The feeds clullered on the tops of the 
branches. 
Small, branched, Sea, Stone Fern, Filicula 
faxatilis ramofa mariiifna. Of a pale green. 
Dwarf, branched Fern, Filix ramofa minor. 
This is the plant called d7yopiris by Tragus. 
Fine cut Stone Fern, with Qender, brittle 
ftalks, Filix faxatilis caule temi fragili. 
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