P O L I P O D I U M lonchitis.
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PI. 1548. Ray Syn. i i S . Flo. Scot. 668. Flo.
Ger. Em. 1 140. Park. 1042.
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G R E A T S P L E E N W O R T .
'‘-FIE roots are thick, hard, compatì and woody, covered with brown
fcales, very fibrous, and have many flumps of decayed leaves remaining
upon them.
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Leaves from five to ten inches long, fimply pinnate, perfectly lance-
fhaped, and of a bright and beautiful green ; their fubftance hard and d ry ;
the rib covered with chaffy fcales of a pale brown.
Lobes from fifteen to twenty-five pairs, placed alternately, the loweft
pairs fliort, remote, the. reft growing gradually nearer to the top ; they
are of an irregular kmatcd figure,, having an ear-like procefs on the upper
edge near the bafe, the lower edge obliquely cut off at the bafe ; the body
of the lobe curving upwards, the bafe both above and below the nerve entire,
the refl doubly ferrated, the larger fcrratures terminating in iharp
fpiiies.
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