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Seed veffels make tlieir firft appearance in two or three white lines
ilaced obliquely on each fide of the nerve on the back o f the lobes; when
they are advanced in growth the colour becomes darker ; at laft they burft,
ifcharge the feeds, and fpread themfelves, but not fo as to cover the whole
diik.
V A R I E T I E S .
There is a variety o f this plant in which the lobes are fubdivided, and
the fubdivifions elegantly crenated and lobed, feeTab. 2. Fig. 2. but this
variety is rare.
Engliih Maiden Hair grows from the crevices o f moift rocks, near rivulets,
on Snowdon and Ingleborougli; on rocks about Ogden Kirk ; on the
moift rocks near the Pitcher Pit, in Soyland Mills Clough; and other
places in the neighbourhood of Halifax.
A S P L E N I U M
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