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P O L I P O D I U M ,
Lm . G est. Plan. 1 17g.
P O L I P O D I U M vulga,re.
b>. P/. 15 4 4 . RaySyn.xx'j. Flo. Scot. 66 j . Flo. Ang. s-SS-
Gcr. Ern. 1 1 3 2 . P a r i. 103g.
t a b . XVIII.
P O L I P O D Y,
root is long, crooked, branched, creeping horizontally under
the mofs, here and there emitting a few fibres.
The leaves rife fingly at fmall diftanccs from four to ten inches high ;
they are fimply pinnate, lance-iliapcd, and of a beautiful green, deftitute
of lobes one-third of their length from the root, and of a firm dry fubftance.
Lobes fifteen or twenty pairs ; a. few o f the loweft pairs increafing gradually
upwards, then diminifliing to the top, where they bccome coniluent,
terminating the leaf in an entire point ; they arc tongue-iliapcd, entire on
the edges, and bluntly rounded off at the extremity.
Seed
