Poli/podium.] 
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sentation ; but a plant still more nearly approaching Linnaeus’s Pol. Cambricum 
is in Sir J. Smith's herbarium, marked as from Ireland. A pinnule is repre- 
sented in the fig. D, copied from the original specimen : an admirable figure of 
the whole frond, as well as of the Cambricum, is in Newman’s ‘ Ferns,’ p. 22 
(45, ed. 1854). One pinnule of the latter is represented at B, and a whole frond 
of it, from my herbarium, at A. The other varieties are shown at E F and G. 
Vir. — A lthough formerly admitted into the Pharmacopoeias, it is scarcely, if at all, 
used in medicine at the present day. It is feebly astringent, of a bitter and 
nauseous taste, and has been considered efficacious in catarrhal disorders, and 
against worms, in doses of from one to two drachms of the dried root. 
Hab. — The common states of the plant (a and S') are generally distributed over 
the United Kingdom, on trees, walls, banks, and rocks. — /3. On the rocks in 
some parts of North Wales, but without fruit. Braid Hall, near Edinburgh, 
Mr. Brown. At Chepstow, Monm., Sir J. E. Smith. — y. Woods at Dulwich 
(1835), Mr. Saunders and Mr. IV. Pamplin. South Isles of Arran (1806), 
Mr. Mackay. In the Dargle, county of Wicklow, Miss Fitton. Innisfallen 
Island, Killarney, Mr. Kelly. South side of King’s Park, Edinburgh, Mr. Brown. 
— £. Rocks in North Wales, With. Meadows near Maldon, and other meadows 
near Ewell, Surrey, Mr. J. Bevis. Cobham Park, Kent, G. F. 
Geo. — Found in most of the middle parts of Europe and North America. 
2.— POLYPODIUM PIIEGOPTERIS. 
BEECH FERN. WOOD POLYPODY. SUN FERN. 
(Plate I, fig. 3.) 
Cfia. — L eaf bipinnatifid. Lowest pin nee distant, deflexed ; the 
others slightly confluent. Pinnules obtuse, entire, hairy. 
Syn. — Polypodium Phegopteris of Linn., Willd., Swz., Spreng., Huds., Liyhtf., 
Bolt., With., Smith, Hook., Mack., Newm. — Polysticlium Phegopteris, 
Roth. — Polypodium latebrosiun, Gray,Salisb. — Gynmocarpium Phegopteris, 
Newm., 1854. 
Fig. — E. B. 2224. — Bolt. 20 (not good). — Flo. Dan. 1241. 
Des. — Rootstock perennial, hairy, slender, creeping horizontally. 
Leaf triangular, herbaceous, erect, hairy, 6 to 12 inches high. 
Pinnae opposite, very acute, adnate, the lower pair bent forwards, 
pendulous, and distant from the pair next above them. The pinnules 
of all are obtuse, entire, and directed towards the point of the 
pinna, particularly the two lowest, which with those on the opposite 
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