CRYPTOGAMIA. FILICES. Poi.ypodium. 993 
Var. 3. Lobes sometimes cloven at the end, sometimes enlarged by a lateral 
appendage. 
Bolt. 2 . 5. b. a portion of a leaf. 
In a wood near Bingley, Yorkshire. Mr. Alexander; Braid Hill, near 
Edinburgh. Mr. Brown. 
Var. 4. Camhricum. Lobes wing-cleft. 
H. Ox. xiv. 2 . 8 — Philc. 30. 1 — Bolt. 2 . 5. a. } a portion of the leaf. 
In this state it never produces fructification. The same is observable of 
the waved variety of Asplenium Scolopendrium. Lightfoot. 
On a rock in a wood near Dennys Powys Castle, not far from Cardiff, Gla¬ 
morganshire. R. Syn. Near Kidderminster. (With copious fructifica* 
tion, in a wood by the Dargle, Wicklow. Mr. J. T. Mackay. E.) 
P. June—Oct. 
Var. 5. Acutum. Lobes very long, distantly serrated; tapering to an acute 
point. 
Specimen sent by J. W. Griffith, Esq. On rocks in North Wales. Cre- 
' m vices of rocks on the south side of the King’s Park, Edinburgh. Mr. 
Brown. 
(2) Leaves winged. 
P. LonchPtis. Wings crescent-shaped, the convex side downwards: 
fringe-serrated : stems with chaff-like scales. 
{E. Bot. 797. E.)— FI. Dan. 4>97—Tourn. 314— Bolt. 19— Matth. 922— 
Ger. 979—Ger. Em. 1140. 3— Pluk. 89. 6— H. Ox. xiv. 2 , row 3. 1 — 
Cam. Epit. 664— Park. 1042. 1 — J. B. iii. 744 —Lon. ii. 34. 1 . 
Leaves in circles round the crown of the root, which is rough with the 
remains of decayed stalks, keeled, from the wings being bent upwards 
on each side the leaf-stalks. Leafits so closely placed as to be tiled, the 
lower edge covering the upper edge of the next beneath, serratures fre¬ 
quently but irregularly terminating in short spine-like teeth, furrowed 
underneath with veins, the margin of the upper half of the base of each 
leafit parallel to the general stalk. Stalk furrowed above. Fructifica¬ 
tions in dots, disposed in two parallel lines on each leafit. Woodw. Plant 
from four to fourteen inches long, and from one to two inches broad ; 
generally curved. Leafits , the larger serratures ending in semi-trans¬ 
parent thorns. 
Royal Polypody. Great Spleenwort. Spleenwort Polypody. 
(Aspidium Lonchitis. Sw. Willd. Sm. Hook. E.) Clefts of rocks. On 
the highest mountains of Carnarvonshire; on Glyder, near Llanberris. 
(On all the mountains of Breadalbane and Glen-lochai, sometimes two 
feet high or more, but quite distinct from P. aculeatum. Mr. Brown. In 
clefts of rocks near the summit of Ben Lomond. Rev. T. Gisborne. On 
Ben Lawers ; also near Caldron Snout, Teesdale. Mr. Winch. Hud¬ 
son's station, “ near Bingley,” is supposed, (in Whitaker’s Craven,) to 
refer to P. aculeatum. In a glen east of Lough Esk, Donegal; and on 
Glenade mountain, Leitrim. E. Murphy, Esq. E.) P. May—Sept. 
P. Ilven'se.* Leafits opposite, united, blunt, hairy underneath : very 
entire at the base. 
* (From the plant having been first observed in the Isle of Elba, ( Ilva .) Sm. E.) 
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