The Natural Hiffory of Jamaica. 
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the Center, the two undermoft Sections having Ears, or appendicule, makin 
the Leaf appear divided into five Sections. The divifion in the middle is - 
the larger, being an Inch and a half long, and about half as broad in the 
middle where broadeft, being eafily dented on each fide, rough, of a yel- 
lowifh green colour, ending each of them ina point, and having one Purple 
middle Rib coming through them from the Foot-Stalk, as froma common 
Center. From thefe middle Ribs go feveral tran{verfe Fibers, on which is. 
a great deal of Ferrugineous Mofs, which is the Seed. The whole Leaf 
is very like that of the ranaunculus pratenfts repens hir{utus. C. B. 
It grew in the fhady Banks of a gully in a Wood, between the Town 
Savanna, and Two-Mile-Wood. 
IX. Hemionitis foliis atrovirentibus maxime diffettis feu filix Geranii Roberti- 
ani folio. Cat.p.15. Filix hemionitis Americana petrofelini foliis prefunde laci- 
niatis Plukenct. Phyt. Tab. 286. Fig. 5. Almaz. p. 155. Filix hemionitis Fae 
maicenfis foliisGeranii Rupertiani quodammodo emulis. Ejufd. ibid. Adiantum 
monophyllum Americanum foliis profunde laciniatis ad cras pulverulentum, Bob. 
hift. Ox. part. 3. p. 592. 
This asto Root, Stalk, cc. is the fame with the former, only the Leaf is 
{mooth, of adark green colour above, being very much more diflected or 
laciniated with Ferrugineous Lines all along the Margins of the back fides of 
the Leaves, the DifleCtions appearing like the geranium Robertianum Leaves 
as to manner of incifures, cc. io 
Thefe two Plants may be reduced to the fecond Divifion of Ferns more 
properly, but becaufe of their great affinity with the hemionitis peregrina, \ 
have put them here. | 
It grew with the former. | 
~ How Dr. Plukenet came to make two of thisone Plant, as he does in his. 
Alm, p.155. and Mantiffa p. 82. he beft can tell. | : 
X. Hemionitis peregrina foliorum fegmentis finuatis longioribus, cr magis a- 
cuminatis feu hedera folio angulofo. Cat. p. 15. Tab.26. Fig.2. 
This had feveral long fibrous Roots uniting in a knob, which fends 
up three or four Stalks, with Leaves very like the Hemionitis Pere- 
rina Cluf. only it was not fo broad nor thick in the Confiltence of 
the Leaf, and had not fuch Auricles as it, and the Segments into which 
it was divided, which were three, were longer, more fharp pointed, and 
finuated about the Edges, which makes me of opinion that it is a differ- 
ing Plant. 
{fc was brought from Famaica, and given me by Dr. Sherard. 
XI. Phyllitis minor [candens foliis anguftis. Cat. p 15. Filix farmentofa bia 
frons, {ew, Dryopteris fcandzns Famaicenfis inter filicem & lycopodium media vel 
Filicis @ lycopodii Compos. Plukenet Tab. 290. Fig. 3. Alm. p. 156. Line 
gua cervina fcandens caulibus {quamemofts. Tournefort. el. Bot. p. 435. Inft. 
. 545. 
f This has a compreffed Stalk, not fo big as a Hens Quill, covered over very 
thick with very many ferrugineous Hairs or Mofs, like that of the other 
Ferns. This fometimes turns Gray, mounting up ftraight forcy Foot high, 
{ticking clofe to the Bark of any Tree, by many hairy {mall fib.ils, of a red- 
difh Brown colour. On each fide of this Stalk, which is fometimes branched, 
goes a Leaf or Pinna at about half an Inchesdiftance, being placd alterna- 
tively, each of thefe Leaves is about four Inches long, and three quarters 
of an Inch broad in the middle where broadeft, being narrow at pad ste 
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