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Of the Hifloiy o! Plants. 
Chap. 4 7 x * 0 / diucrs fmall Femes. 
«I The Vcfcripiion. 
’His fmall or dwarfe Feme, which is feldome found except in the banks of (lonv foun- 
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I taines, wells, and rockes bordering vpon riuers, is very likevntothe common Brakes 
in leaues, but altogether Idler : therootiscompofed of a bundle of blacke threddic 
things. 
2 The female,which is found likewife by running ftreames, wells, and fountaincs,vpon rockes J 
and ftonre p!aces,i s like the precedent.but is a great deale fmaller, blacker of colour, fewer rootes’ 
and fhorter. 
I Filiculafontmuma. 
The male fountame Feme. 
f 3 Tilicuhi petrxAmas. 
The male dwarfe done Feme. 
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3 The male dwarfe Feme that groweth vpon the (tonic mountaines of the North and Wef 
parts of England,efpecially toward the fea,and alfo in the ioints of (tone walls among the morrer 
hath fmall leauesdeepelycutonbotb (ides, likevnto Ccterach or Spleenewoorr, barren both o 
feeds and (talks, as alfo of thofe fpors or markes that are to be feene vpon the backe part of the o 
ther Femes : the root creepeth along fet with fome few hairie ftrinesuefembline thole of the Ok< 
Feme, cal led Dryopteris. 
4 The female (tone Feme hath diners longleaues riling from a threddy root, contraric to rhn 
of the male,compofed of many (mail leaues h'nely minced or cut like the teeth ofa faw, of a wiii 
ti(h green colour, without any fpots or marks at all,fceds or (talks, which groweth vnder fhadowii 
rocks, and craggic rhountaines in molt places, f From a fmall root compofed of manv black ( 
hairie, and intricately folding ft rings come vpmany leaues two oi three inches high, (liffe,thick« 
darkegreene,and (hiring : in the diuifior, growth, po(ition,fhape and tafte, it refembles the mal 
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rernc 3 and hath alfo rmliei pots on the backe: the middle ribbe andftalkcis of a fhiningbro 
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