FELICES BRITANNIC iE. 6i 
The fecond leaves are jointed, and have vaginae at the joints; from 
the bafe of which vaginae the third leaves are produced, three or four 
from each joint. 
Thefe third leaves, like the firft and fecond, are jointed and vagina- 
ted; and, in fome luxuriant fpecimens, I have feen fourth leaves of a 
limilar ftrudure. 
BARREN LEAVES, Fig. c, 
Thefe fpring from different parts of the fame root, which produces 
the fertile ones, and like thofe are at firft wholly covered with vaginae, 
but are readily diftinguifhed from them, by being much fmaller, and of 
a pale, dufky, green colour. 
From the uppermoft vagina, the rudiments of the fecond leaves make 
their firfl appearance, in form of a clofe, rough, pale-green, tapering 
The vagina are green, except at the point, where they are divided in 
four brown dents, as in the fertile fhoots; but in this they are fmaller, 
and embrace the Bern more clofely than in that.. 
The fecond leaves are about twelve in number, produced in circles 
from the bafe of the vagina, each having a proper, brown, fhort, tri» 
dentate vagina, at its bafe; they are quadrangular, jointed, and have 
quadridentate vaginae, from the bafe whereof grow the third leaves, three 
or four at a joint, and are of the fame ftrudure with the fecond. A full 
grown fecond leaf is feen in the Plate, at d. 
It grows in wet, fandy foils, in woods and meadows about Halifax^ 
abundantly. 
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