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Seed veffels placed in lines on the under fide of the lobes, four or five
o f thefe lines on each fide of the nerve running obliquely.
In this, as in all other afplcniums, the foed-liucs, when burft, become
broader, but do not in this fpecies, as in feveral, cover the whole under
fide of the lobes.
V A R I E T I E S .
The Rev. and ingenious Mr. Lightfoot obferved a variety o f this plant
in the caves at Weems, in Scotland, which he fuppofcs to be the fame as
defcribed by Sibbald in his Scotia Illuftrata, p. 7, part 2 ; and which the
author o f the Flora Anglica has named Adiantum trapeziforme. For the
fatisfailion of the curious I have copied Sibbald’s figure ; fee Tab. 2. Fig. 4.
Sea Spleenwort is faid to grow on rocks in the Me o f Anglefea ; about
the fliores of Suffex, Devonfhire, Cornwall and Cumberland. The fpecimen
from which I took my figure and defcription, I gathered from a
rock in the fide o f a ftone pit, or quarry, clofe by the road leading from
Warrington to Winwick, in Lancafliire.
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