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FERITY COMBES. 
Cetebach oeficevabtjm. Scaly Hartf s - tongue , or 
Stone Fern. 
Prond simply scalloped; masses of sori line-like 
without indusium, almost hidden by the chaffy 
brown scales which cover the entire under surface 
of the frond. 
A charming little evergreen plant, seldom more 
than three or four inches high; it grows on walls, 
among others on those of Jerusalem, often in com¬ 
pany with the Wall Sue. 
Blechnem Spicaft. Hard Fern. 
(Plate II. Pig. 2.) 
Pronds of two kinds, barren and fertile ; deeply 
cleft to the stem, divisions very narrow, particularly 
so in the fertile fronds; both barren and fertile 
dwindling to a mere excrescence at the base. 
Masses of seed in continuous lines, just inside the 
edge of the pinnae or divisions, covered with an in¬ 
dusium the length of the pinnae ; when mature the 
whole under surface covered with seed. 
A common evergreen fern, growing on exposed 
heaths and hedgerows. The fertile fronds are rigid 
and upright, the pinnae far divided. The barren are 
rigid in texture, but usually decumbent or lying 
along the ground. 
