F I L I C E S 
(FEEXS.) 
rOLYPODIUM YULGAEE. 
( Common Polypody.) 
Derivation of Name. From polus, many, and pous^ a foot. 
SYNONYME. 
Ctenopteris Vulgaris. Newman. 
DESCRIPTION. 
The Caudex (underground stem) creeping with the root- 
lets shooting from it in all directions. 
Fronds deeply pinnatifid, the segments linear-lanceolate 
and more or less toothed, sometimes deeply bipmnatilid with 
the divisions again toothed. They appear about May and 
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