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Adiantum ramofum majus, foli few pinnulis tenuibus longis profunde laciniatis 
obtufis, Cat.pl. fam p.2r2. An Filix ramofa Canarienfts rute murariea pinnulis 
anguftis, altius incifis, media cofte alternatim alligatis. Plukenet. Almag. p. 156. 
Tab. 291. Fig. 2? | | 
Tab.2.Fig.3. This rifesto be a Foot and ahalf, or two Foot high, having a reddifh pale 
brown Stalk, cornered in the infide, and round on the other, at Nine Inches or 
a Foots diftance from the Ground branchd ; thofe Branches undermott, or. 
next the Root, being the largeft about a Foot long having their Twigs, on 
which ftand the Pivaule or Leaves alternatively, they being long, thin, pale 
green coloured, and divided into long blunt narrow Sections or incifures, by 
{everal very deep Lacinice. , 
Jt grew in the Ifland of Madera, about half a Mile beyond the Town of 
Funchal, by a Road fide going towards the Mountain. 
Gramen paniceum {pica fimplici levi. Raii Hift. 
-  Gramen daétylon Siculum multiplici panicula {picis ab eodem exortu geminis. Raii 
Hift.p.1271.  Plukenet. Tab. 92. Fig... | 
Gramen tremulum maximum. C.B. Raii Hift. p. 1274. | 
Gramen miliaceum anguftifolinm altum locuftis minimis, Cat. pl. fam.p.35.° An 
Gramen montanum panicula miliacea {parfa, C.B. prod. p.17 2 pia. p. 82 Theat. bot. 
.131? 
Tab2. Fig4, ; this had a round fmallhard green Stalk or Culmus, frequently jointed, at 
each joint, having three or four Inches long narrow graffie Leaves, and rifing 
to be four or five Foot high, the Panicle was about fix Inches long: The little 
Twigs or Strings going out of the upper part of the Ca/mus, and to which 
the Locufte were faftened were about two inches long, taking their begin- 
ning from the fame part.of the Stalk, flanding round about like fo many 
Rays from the Centre, at about an Inch diftance more or Ie{S from one ano- 
ther after the manner of Oats. The Locu/fe were not Scaly, but ftanding fingly 
by one another, being many and {mail, having within clay-coloured G/ume or 
Chaff, one fhining roundish {mall Seed, like that of Millet. This fame 
Plant which grew of Jralian Seed in Oxford Garden, being given by Dr. She- 
yard, who found it in /taly, to Mr. Bobart, was much largcr by Culture, 
than the fame Wild. 
Gramen avenaceum, panicula minus fparfa, cujus fingula grana, tres ariftas lone 
gilfimas habent, Cat. pl. Jam. p. 35. 
This Grafs had a Panicle of about fix Inches long, not very fparfe, when 
ripe of a reddifh yellow colour, the Spikes were placed alternatively at long 
Tab.2. Fig... Intervals, and had fet on them by {mall Foot-ftalks feveral very long Grains, 
and 6. each of which had on their uppermoft ends three very long Ari/te, by which 
it may be {ufficiently diftinguifh’d ; the G/ume were of the fame colour with 
the Panicle, and not awned: the Spikes were not many in number, 
CUrtica, caule lignofo, foliis tenuioritus atrovirentibus, Cat. pl. fam. p.38. An 
urtica wrens ramofa Lufitanica Comm. Cat. Amff. p. 369. 
This had an upright corner’d woody Stem,folid, and having a Fungous Pith, 
being cover’d witha {mooth reddifh brown Bark, rifing two or three Foot 
high, having Joints and Branches fet oppofite to one another, on which ftand 
likewife oppofite to one another at the Joints the Leaves on three quarters 
of an Inch long, Foot-ftalks. They are very thick fet with burning fimall 
Prickles, being Inch long, and three quarters broad at round bafe where 
broadeft, from whence they decreafe to their ends, being very much cut in, 
on the edgesthin, and of a dark green colour. 
This (which comes fo very near the Urtica urens minor, C.B. that I doubt if 
it differ any otherways than in its Stature and Duration from it) found on 
the Madera Ifland, near the Town of Funchal. 
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