CRYPTOGAMIA. 
m 
N° of 
Species in 
■N 6 ' 
General 
Growth, species 
. Native of 
Britain, 
2nd. Fructifications on the leaf, beneath. 
' 5 
Acrostichum 
h 
35 
N. & S. America 
Brit. 2 
6 
Adianthum* 
h 
27 
Africa, 8tc. 
Brit. 2 
7 
Asplenium 
h 
. 28 
America, &e. 
Brit. 8 
8 
Blechnum 
h 
6 
Virginia, Japan 
9 
Hemionitis 
h 
4 
Jamaica, Japan 
10 
Lonchitis 
h 
4 
Jamaica 
11 
Polypodiumf 
h 
78 
America, &c» 
Brit. 15 
12 
PterisJ 
h 
23 
W. Indies 
Brit. 1 
13 
Trichomanes 
h 
15 
Canary, China 
Brit. 2 
3di Fructifications radical 
14 
Isoetes 
h 
2 
Europe 
Brit. 1 
15 
Marsilea 
h 
3 
Italy 
16 
Pilularia 
h 
1 
Europe 
Brit. 1 
ORDER II. 
MUSCL 
(MOSSES.) 
Ahese are distinguished according as the anthers (generally without filaments) 
afe or are not under a calyptra (vail of covering); as they are placed on the same 
plant with the female* or on a different plant (called one bed or two bedsj 9 and as^ 
the females are aggregate or solitary. This division, Linnaeus tells us, is according 
io~Dellenius, / 
* Adianthum capillus ve?ieii$ (Venus*s hair) is supposed to be an ingredient in 
the syrup of capillaire, which you have at the coffee houses in London mixed with 
waterfrbm whehce the name, 
f The tartarian lamb , which is esteemed a vegetable curiosity, is only the root 
bf a species of j'erii (called by Linnaeus polypodium baromez , signifying a tambj 9 
which is thick and Covered with a soft dense yellow wool 9 and it sometimes hap¬ 
pens that a part of the root is pushed out of the ground in its horizontal situation 
by sbme of the under branches, which gives the appearance of legs, and is hence 
said to resemble a lamb.—See a priht Of it in Philos . Trans . vol. 2 ,~and also in 
Dr. Hunter's edit, of Evelyn's Syiml printed in 1786. It is also said in Gordon’s 
Geog . Gram . that it destroys ail vegetables within its reach, and if the f*kin or rind 
is dressed with the wool oh, as a lamb skin, it is difficult to distinguish them, and 
that many of the Muscovites Use the skin instead of furs, for the lining of their vests. 
The down or wool is used for stopping hemorrhages, and is called golden moss . 
X Pteris aquilina (common fern or bracken), the roots of which are much used 
as bread in New Zealand.— Cook*s voyage* And in our dispensatories they are 
said to be aperient and anthelmintic. 
