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1 From this remark, Fée is of opinion that he had in view more particularly the Pteris aquilina and the Blechnum spicatum of Linnæus, plants in which the seed is not easily detected.
2 Identified by Fée with the Polypodium filix mas of Linnæus, the Male fern.
3 Dioscorides says it has a somewhat unpleasant smell, and this is nearer the truth.
4 "Female fern." Identified by Fée with the Polypodium filix fæmina of Linnæus, Female fern or Pteris aquilina.
5 See B. xviii. c. 59.
6 Fée remarks that root of fern is an undoubted remedy for tapeworm, and that it is worthy of remark that we owe to the ancients the two most efficient anthelmintics known, fern-root, namely, and pomegranate rind.
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