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P O L I P O D I U M aculeatum.
L in . Sp. Plan. 1552. Ray Syn. 1 2 1 . Flo. Scot. 675. Flo. Ang. 459.
Ger. Em. 1 1 30.
T A B . XXVI.
P R I C K L Y P O L I P O D Y .
IR S T leaves from one to two feet in length, o f a true lance-fhapc,
broadeft in the middle, decreafing gradually and llowly toward the
extremities, being fomewhat broader at bottom than at top ; the rib channeled
on the upper fide, round below, and clofely covered with brown
chaffy filmy fcales; fubftance hard, rigid, dry ; colour a dark green.
Second leaves from twenty to forty in number, one or two o f the loweft
pairs placed oppofite, becoming gradually alternate upwards, feparate from
each other quite to the top, the loweft pair a little more remote than the
next above, by an eafy gradation growing nearer and nearer to the top, all
placed at an acute angle with the middle rib, and curving upwards from
the bafe to the point.
Lobes from eight to twenty, a few of the firft pairs divided down to the
nerve, they thence gradually become confluent, and lofe themfelves in the
acute