so 
Tliis fern gi’ow almost anywliere, and perhaps no 
other has been so much cultivated for its varieties, sixty- 
ftix being enumerated in the folio edition of Nature Printed 
Perns. Most of these varieties seem permanent and are 
reproduced from spores and from the same roots year after 
year. No special varieties have been found in this neigh- 
bourhood. 
USES. 
Pay and Lightfoot recommend it as an apj)lication to 
vounds, burns, &c. Gerard sa^’s Bioscot'ides teacheth, 
that being di’unke-in wine it is a remedie against the bitings 
of serpents. It doth open the hardnesse and stopping of 
the spleen and liver, and all other griefes proceeding of 
oppilations or stoppings whatsoever.” Parkinson says 
“ divers doe also commend the distilled water thereof to bee 
taken against the passions of the heart, and to stay the 
liicket, and to help the falling of the paUate, to stay the 
bleeding gums if the mouth be gargled therewith.” 
LOCALITIES. 
AValls, rocks, woods, and' hedges. Nostell, Newmiller- 
dam, Thornes, Horbury. Three years since tolerably 
plentiful in Hell Lane, but now quite eradicated, not foi* 
scientific but roclcenj purposes. 
Plate XY. 
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