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F I R S T P A R T of this H I S T O R Y of F E R N S .
A C R O S T I C H U M . Parti . Page a i .
A C R O S T I C H U M alpinum.
Frondibus fubbipinnatis, pinnis remotis fubalternis, lobis rolundis fub-
crenatis fuhtus hirfutus, Jiipite Icevi. Pluk, Phyt. Tab. 8 9 . Fig. 5.
Barrelier Icon. 4 3 2 . Fig. 2.
T A B . XLII.
A L P I N E A C R O S T I C H U M .
Th e root o f this little Acroftichum confifts o f a few black, hard
branches, conneded to a fmall head, and furnifhed with black,
hard, capillary fibres.
The rib o f the firft leaf, when full grown, is about three inches
high, of a pale, browniih-green colour, flender and fmooth, being quite
deftitute o f hairs.
Second leaves, fix or feven pairs, oppofite below, alternate above, of
a triangular figure, obtufe at the corners; three or four of the loweft
pairs being all o f equal fize, and remote ; two or three o f the upper
gradually leffening, and growing clofer together.
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