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F I L I C E S 
BRITANNIC iE. 
PILULARIA. 
hin, Gen. Flan. 1183. 
PILULARIA globulifera. 
Sp. PI. 1653. Flo. Ang. 462. Scot. 682. Ray Syn. 130. Fail. Paris. 
Tab. 15. Fig. 6e Dill. Mufc. Tab. 79, Fig. i. Flo. Dan. Tab. 223. 
^ A B. XL. 
PEPPER GRASS. 
W HAT has been called the root in this plant, may perhaps not im¬ 
properly be termed the firft leaf, or main ftem of the plant. It 
creeps on the furface of the ground, in various winding diredlions, is of 
a bro^vnifh-green colour, having knots or joints at diftances. 
At each knot of the creeping ftem, the roots, conftfting of three or 
four ftrong white fibres, run down into the moift fand, among which it 
grows j and at the fame knots or joints, on the upper fide of the ftem, 
the fecond leaves are produced, two or three together. While young 
they are coiled up in a clofe curl, like moft other of the ferns; when full 
grown they are about three inches long of a frefli green colour; each 
one 
