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Lobes two or three pairs, alternate, gaihed in tv/o or three fegments,
tvhich are obtufe at their extremities, and fome of them indiftindtly waved
or crenated on the edges ; fubftance, a thin, light, pellucid, dark-green
membrane, with a black liair-like nerve running up the middle quite from
the root to the top along the middle of the firft and fecond leaves the lobes
and their fegments. In the drawing and engraving of my figure, I have
been painfully cxaft. The figure above referred to in Ray’ s Synopfis is of
a firft leaf very greatly exaggerated.
Seed veffels, none ever difcovered upon this Phenomenon of a plant.
■Firft difcovered by Dr. Richardfon in a little dark cavern, under a dripping
rock, a little below the fpring o f Elm Cragg Well, in Bell Bank, fcarce
half a mile from Bingley. In this place I faw it in plenty in the year
1758 : afterwards fome alterations being made about the well, for the convenience
of the proprietor, the cavern was dcftroycd, the plant perifhcd,
and was loft to Great-Britain till the year 1782 ; at which time being engaged
in this work, and pafllonately defirous to fee the plant again in its
growing ftate, after feveral refearches in Bell Bank, I found a root under a
dripping rock, to the left fide o f the current, and about fifteen yards above
the ciftern. From this root I have fent fpecimens to one or two of my
friends, and have in my poffeffion the beft of them, from which this figure
and defcription was taken.
T R ICHOM AN ES