I l f Fertile firil leaves taller than the barren, of the fame general figure,
Sind of a darker green ; fecond leaves four or five pairs placed alternately,
•diminiihing to the top, and terminating in a fingle lobe.
Third leaves confiiling of two or three pairs of lobes with fingle ones
iiiterfperfed.
Lobes fimple, oblong, one third o f an inch in length, rolled back at
the edges, and of a thick firm fubftance.
Seed veffels placed in lines on the under margin of the fertile lobes, at
firft of a whitifli colour, when ripe o f a yellow brown, and, after the difcharge
of the feeds, cncreafing in breadth fo as to cover the whole diik of
the lobe, except the middle nerve.
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Ofmunda Crifpa grows on Ingleborough-Hill, Yorkihire ; on Homble-
ton-Hill, near Burnley ; under the great rocks at Clibberihaw-Dean, near
Todmorden, Mr. W w d ; in Knotty-Lane, near Saddleworth-Ray, Lan-
cafhire ; but moft abundantly on Snowdon, where I gathered the fpecimen
which is reprefented on the plate in Auguft A .D . 1784.
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