62 
FERNS. 
[Cryptogramma. 
Srr. — Upon barren heaths, in parks and woods, contenting ^ «cc^ionaUy 
with any soil or situation; it delights, lowever, n s> llect rightly, it is 
it shuns the limestone and chalk drstr.cts : t ampere in 
scarcely found on Salisbury Plain, nor ■ do Ira member S n " ot wholly 
Kent except in sandy spots. Be it o b serve, d, ho never that ^ ^ R . g 
excluded from chalk and limestone, as I lia\ Watson it is not found in 
not fond of a lofty situation, as, according to Mr. Watson, 
places more than 500 or 600 yards above sea level. 
Am^c^^s^d^^vfffie^a^ittle °from ^ursf behig^ ratlie^ < more ^ndy C< divideib 
somewhat ciliated, and earlier m growth. 
CRYPTOGRAMMA, Br. ROCK-BRAKE. 
(From „p«irr„ £ , covered, ypayya, a line; from the concealed lines of thecas.) 
A , portion of a /entile loaf 
what enlarged. C, ditto with the mnnule. E, pinnule of a 
Our only specie. wa. too, considered o Pt«rU, » «"/'«* "J/fXfin 
in habit, it has, Me that cLr It differs, 
Z:^X‘&!fJ^t Ton tiled along all the »*«»»» if the tohoh, 
leaf, hut confined to the sides of the separate pinnules. 
CRYPTOGRAMMA CRISP A. 
rock-brake, stone-fern, crisped fern, parsley-fern. 
(Plate VI, fig. 2.) 
Cha. — L eaf triangular, twice or thrice pinnate. 1 eitile pinnules 
oblong, blunt ; barren ones wedge-shaped, cleft, crenate. 
Syn . — C ryptogramma crispa Hook * 
MSS., Wild., Swz., Hull, With., Smith, llooh., n i . 
rupestris, Salisb.- Osmuiula cnsjia.tea. m Sp P, Uo jJ_ 
Bolt. — Stegama onocleoules, Or ay. unociea ui 1 > 
Allosorus crispus, Bernh., Kaulf., Spreng., Ba ., i cum. 
Yio.—E. B. 1 1 60. — Bolt. 7. — Flo. Dan. 496.— Pink. Phyt. t. o, f. 
Newm. 35 (1854). 
Des .— Rootstock slightly creeping, long and fibrous. Lea 
twice or thrice pinnate, deciduous, of a very lively green colour, 3 
to 12 inches high. Leaf-stalk slender, smooth, and shining. 
Barren pinnules wedge-shaped or roundish, deeply cut and crena c ; 
pinnec nearly opposite, but not always so, tour or five pairs. 
