1002 CRYPTOGAMIA. FILICES. Adiantum. 
E. Bot. 15*25— Bolt. 1.1. 
Root stouter and less extending than in the preceding species. Frond more 
firm and rigid ; stalk more scaly about the lower part. Branches smaller, 
rigid, and not loosely spreading. Masses of capsules of a browner hue, 
more crowded. Sm. 
Rigid Three-branched Polypody. P. calcareum. Sw. Wild. Sm. Purt. 
P. Dryopteris. var. Bolt. On mountainous heaths, or in woods, on a 
limestone soil. In White Scars, near Ingleton, Yorkshire; and in the 
Peak of Derbyshire. Bolton. Cheddar Rocks, Somersetshire. J. W. 
Griffith, Esq. P. July. E.) 
ADIANTUM.* Capsules forming oval spots under the ends 
of the leaves, which are folded back. 
A. Capil'lus-Ven'eris. Leaves doubly compound : wings alternate : 
leafits wedge-shaped: lobed, on leaf-stalks. 
Dicks. H. S. — Jacq. Misc. ii. 7— Bull. 247— Bolt. 29—( E. Bot. 1564. E.) 
Tourn. 317.2— Ger.9 82.2— Tourn. 317. 2— Cam. Epit. 924— Park. 1049. 
1— Matth. 1201—J". B. iii. 752— Loh. Adv. 361.1, 1c. i. 809. 2— Gars. 125. 
A.—Ger. 982. 1—Fuchs. 82 —Trag. 531— Dod. 469.2— Ger. Em. 1143. 1. 
About five or six inches high. Leajits fan-shaped, with four or five notches 
at the end of a very delicate semi-transparent green, which it retains in 
a dry state. 
True Maidenhair. Rocks and moist walls. Barry Island and Port 
Kirig, Glamorganshire. Mr. Lhwyd. Isle of Arran, near Galloway. 
Mr. Stonestreet. South Islands of Arran. Mr. J. T. Mackay. Eng. FI. 
Banks of Carron, a rivulet in Kincardineshire. Prof. Beattie, in Hook. 
Scot. E.) P. May—Sept.f 
TRICHO'MANES.J Fructifications on the edge of the leaf, 
solitary, urn-shaped; ending in a thread-shaped style. 
T. Tunbridgen'se. Leaves winged : wings oblong, forked, decurrent, 
toothed. 
{Hook. FI. Lond. 71. E.)— FI. Dan. 954 —E.Bot. 162—Pluk. 3. 5— Bolt. 2. 
7— H. Ox. xv. 7. 50. 
Wings sometimes, not always, serrated or scolloped. Bolt. Wings ellipti¬ 
cal, narrow; teeth sharp. Woodw. Leaves all producing fructifications 
* (So called from a, privative, and oiakw, to moisten or become wet; because its leaves 
are said to resist moisture ; but how far this name may have been originally applied to 
our plant seems questionable. Hippocrates describes the Fern of the ancients as 
xocWcf>uAAov, beautiful-leaved ; Theocritus xXoepov ahocvrov, the green Adiantum. E.) 
■f (This very elegant plant is chiefly used for making syrup of capillaire; for which 
purpose also the more common Asplenium trichomanes is occasionally substituted; an 
immaterial imposition, as neither plant seems to possess either pectoral, or any other 
active virtues. This Fern may be increased by planting in pots of lime rubbish, but 
sometimes requires shelter in the winter. E.) 
■. $ (From Opi^ rpr^os, hair. Respecting the latter part of the name etymologists are 
not agreed. The term, so far as intelligible, would seem to refer to the slender shining 
stalks common to most Ferns, which occasioned such plants to be called capillary herbs ; 
and also to the reputation of improving the growth of human hair, an inference equally 
futile with many others deduced from analogous appearances. E.) 
