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"Seed veffels placed in dots on the under margin of the lobes, tab. fig.
2d ; at firft of a whitifli colour, and diftina ; w’hen ripe, they burft, turn
brown, flow together, and cover the whole diik of the lobe, except the
middle nerve, fig. 3. From this laft circumftance, the plant was formerly
■taken for an Acroftichum ; fe e Lin. Sp. PI. 1528. No. 25.
The young roots are barren, the leaves arifing from them arc fix or
eight inches high, all the parts fewer, their fubftance thin, light, tender
and delicate, fig. i . In this ftate it is accurately defcribed by the ingenious
John Goodyer ; fe e Ger. Em. p. 1 1 35.
Marfli Polipody grows in moift marfhy grounds about the borders of
moors, woods and rivulets. It grows at the bottom of a little wood near
the rivulet diredly below the cottages in Birks-lane, half a mile from Halifax
; in the top of a four field under North Dean Wood, Norland ; and
about Cob Clough near Pvipponden plentifully.
I fufpea the Polipodium fragrans of Mr. Hudfon to be a variety of this
plant, where the feeds, accidentally taking root on rocks, produce fmall
plants having the parts croudcd. Linmeu s’s defcription of the Polipodium
fragrans, yfii Mantijfa, 2, 307, agrees with Polipodium thelypteris in every
thing but magnitude. I f Polipodium fragrans is a real fpecies, I fliall be
thankful to any one who will communicate a fair fpecimen, or give hints
o f information concerning it.
I POLIPODIUM