Polypodium. J 
FERNS. 
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GRAMMITIS CETERACH. 
SCALY GRAMMITIS. SCALY IIARt’s TONGUE. MILTWAST. 
(Plate I, fig. 1.) 
Ciia. — Leaf linear-lanceolate, pinnatifid, scaly beneath. Lobes 
alternate, confluent, blunt, with tvaved margins. 
Syn. — Grammitis ceterach, Sivz., Hook., Mack. — Asplenium or ceteracli, Ger., 
Plum., Ray. — Asplenium ceterach, Linn., Iluds., Sibt., Light f, Bolt., 
With., Spreng. — Gymnopteris ceterach, Bemh. — Scolopendrium ceterach, 
Roth., Gulp., Smith. — Ceterach oflicinarum, Willd., Decan., Newm. — 
Notolepeum ceterach, Neivm., 1854. 
Fig. — E. B. 1244.— Park. 1046,/. 1 .—Ger. 978. — Label, 807. — Bolt. 12 {bad). 
Des. — Rootstock perennial, fibrous, black, tufted. Leaves many 
from the same point, herbaceous, 3 to 6 inches high, blunt, of a 
thick texture, dark green above, covered with brown scales beneath. 
Lobes confluent at their base, round, slightly waved at the margin, 
alternate at the lower part of the leaf, fiat only when young, after- 
wards curved inwards towards the main rib, thereby exposing more 
the fructification. Thecte all the summer, at first concealed by the 
scales, afterwards bursting through them in oblong, transverse 
masses, with an inconspicuous ei’ect membrane (indusium) at the 
lower side of the sori ; surrounded by very delicate, white, mem- 
branous scales. 
Sit. — On rocks, okl walls, &c., chiefly in the South of England. 
Hab. — Eng. : Near Lancaster, Mr. W. Wilson. Common about Settle, York- 
shire, Mr. J. Tatham. On limestone rocks in Lath-kill-dale, Derb., Mr. J. E. 
Bowman. On a wall at Newton, near Melbourne, Derbys., Rev. A. Bloxam. 
Dovedale, Derbys., Mr. T. S. Scholes. Walls at Ludlow, about the quarries, 
Salop, Mr. J. S. Bayly. Old wall near Cowley, Oxon, Mr. Baxter. Wall at 
Tocknells, near Painswick, Glou., Mr. Merrick. Martock, Somer., Mr. T. H. 
Cooper. Stapleton quarries, near Bristol, Mr. Anderson. Cheddar, Mr. W. 
C. Trevelyan. Malvern Abbey, Mr. W. Christy. Bath, Mr. C. C. Babington. 
On the tower of Old Alresford Church, Hants, Mr. Forder. Walls at Win- 
chester, chiefly to the E. and N. E. of the city, Mr. W. Pamplin. Topsham and 
elsewhere in Devon, Mr. Kingston. On the bridge over the Tamar, in the road 
from Callington to Tavistock, Jones's Tour. — Wales : Denbighshire (rare), Mr 
J. E. Bowman. Walls of a ruin at Trebortli, near Bangor, Mr. W. Wilson. — 
Ire. : Ruins of Saggard Church, Mr. Kelly. Walls near Cork, also near 
Kilkenny, and in county Clare, Mr. Mackay. Cave-liill, Mr. Templeton. Head- 
ford, Galway, Mr. Shuttleivorth. 
Geo. — Holland, Spain, France, Switzerland, Nassau, Jena, Leipsic, and other 
parts of Germany, the Tyrol, Sicily, and the Canary Islands. 
POLYPODIUM. Linn. POLYPODY. 
(HoXuc, many, and novc, ttoSoc, a foot; from its numerous roots.) 
A, pinnule of natural size of Polypodium vulgare. B, magnified section of a 
