The Natural Hiflory of Jamaica. 
It grew ina thick, very high, and fhady Wood, at the bottom of Mount 
Diablo, beyond the Maggoty Savanna: | 
It differs from Mr. Baniffer’s Phyllitis faxatilis Virginiana per funimitates fo- 
licrum prolifera, Which is Gnuated at Bafe, and hasa Feot-Stalk. 
IV. Phyllitis arboribus innafcens, folio non finuato tenuiori rotundis pulverulen- 
tis maculis aver{a parte puncfato. Cat. p.14, Lingua cervina longis anzuftis é 
undulatis foliis. Tournef. Inft. p. 545. 
This has a long knobbed Root, having faftened to it feveral Scales, or 
temains of Leaves dropt of, and a great many reddifh brown Fibers, in- 
terwoven one within another, having a three Inches long green Foot-Stalk. 
The Leaf is nine Inches long, two broad in the middle, where broadeft, 
not falcated or finuated at beginning like Evropean Harts-Tongue, but very 
narrow, and ending in a fharp, or fometimes blunt point, being very 
green, thin, and fhining, and having on its backfide feveral round ferrugi- 
neous {pots in which lie the Seeds. 
It grows moftly on the Truncs of great, chiefly old, Trees, as Mifleltoe, 
and is to be found on fuch Trees in the Path going to fixteen Mile Walk, and 
in fhady places of the Hills in Liguanee by Aope River. Sometimes whea 
old Trees fall down, this wil! then grow on the Ground. 
V. Fhyllitis non finuata foliorum limbis \eviter ferratis. Cat. p. 14. 
This, which feemed to be a {mall ftarv’d Plant, had a Root made up of 
many brown Fibres, {ending up fome eight or nine Leaves without any Foot- 
Stalks, being about three Inches long, three quarters of an Inch broad, near 
the further end where broadeft, of a yellowifh green colour, and fmootl:, 
dentated about the Edges, being narrow at beginning, they increafe to neat 
the end, and then decreafe to a blunt point. 
It grows in the great fhady Woods, in the inland parts of the Ifland. 
VI. Hemionitis peregrina Cluf. rar. plant. hift. lib.6. p»214. Cat.p. 14. 
I had this given me by Dr. William Sherard, who had it of one, Who 'ga- 
thered it in Famaica or Madera. 
VII. Filix Eremionitis ditta Maderenfts, hedera arborea aliquatenus amula, fee 
foliorum bah auriculis binis utrinque donato. Pluken. Alm. p. 155. Phyt. Tab. 
287. Fig.4. Hlemionitis Famaicenfts hederaceo folio, lincis feminiferis tenusff- 
mis in dorfo notato. Bob. hift. Ox. part. 3. p. 560. An Hemionitis Lufitanica 
elegantior Tournef. el. Bot. p. 436? Inft. p. 546 ? 
This was brought me with the former, and was gathered by Fames Harlow 
in Madera, if I rightly remember. { queftion much whether this be really 
differing from the former. 
_ Though Dr.Plskenet tacitly confefles in his Mantiffa, p.82.that he had made 
twoof this Plant in his Almag. p.155. yetany body who compares his Figure 
of this Plant, 7ab.287. Fig. 4. and mine of the Hemionitis peregrina folio 
rum fegmentis finuatis, &c. Tab.2.6. Fig.2. figured and defcribed hereafter, 
will find them vaftly differing. 
VIII. Hremionitis folio hirfuto c magis diffecto feu ranunculi folio. Cat. p. 14. 
Filix hemionitis ditta fanicula foliis villofa, Plukenet. Alm. p.155. Phyt. Tab. 
291. Fig. 4. | 
This had a great many fibrous, and thready black Roots, fending up fe- 
veral {maller, and two fix Inchas long fhining black cornered Stalks, being 
covered over with a Ferrugineous Hair or Mofs, the Leaf ftands at top, be- 
ing divided into three parts or Segments, very deeply cut in, even almoft to 
the 
