Ihe Natural Hiftory of Jamaica. 
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The Face of this Plant, and difference of the Leaves or Pinnulemake it 
very difficult to affign ita right place, for almoft every {everal middie Rib or 
Stalk has feveral differing Kinds of Pinnule. 1t fometimes is about a Foot 
and a half long, has a pale green Stalk, which is fomewhat hoary, and at 
bottom has roundifh Prwnule, refembling the Leaves of Nammularia, and 
thofe are placed at fome diftance from one another See Zab. 29. ¢} Tab.30. 
Fig. 1. lit.aaaaaa. On other Stalks at greater or leffer diftances come 
Pinnula or: Leaves that are Oblong, and fomething auriculated on both up- 
per and under fide, and then above them to the point are rounder Leaves. 
On other Twigs the Leaves are joined clofe to one another, after the man- 
ner of thofe of <Afplenium. All of thefe forts of Pisnule have Seed on the 
back parts, lying in Ferrugineous Spots along the middle Rib, as others of 
this Kind. See Zab. 29. c Tab. 30. Fig. 1. lit.bbbbb. Sometimes again 
the Leaves will be Oblong and auriculated of each fide, both upper and 
under, and disjoined without any cohefion up to the top. At other times 
they will be auriculated, disjoined, and towards top grow weak, trailing 
and touching the ground take Root, and propagate the Plant, fo that I have 
not feen in any Plant fo great {porting of Nature as in this. Another va- 
riety is in the Leaves, which are ferrated, or, as it were, made up of Pinaule, 
after the manner of the Chamefilix, which take Root when they touch the 
ground, as the preceding variety doth, and this is fo very odd, that it 
would impofe almoft on any one to make them believe it a differing Plant. 
See Tab. 29. lit.c ce. all the Pinnula of this Fernare thorteft at bottom, and 
longeft in the middle. The Roots were many black Ligule united, making 
a {trong Foundation for the Plant. 
It was brought from Famaica by Sir Arthur Rawdon’s Gardener, and com- 
municated to me by Dr. Sherard. 
Itappears by Zab. 29. Fig. 1. lit. bb, ec. that it has two forts of Leaves, 
thoferof A/plenium, and auriculated on both fides, fo that I cannot but won- 
der why Dr. Plwkenct fhould think that it cannot be the fame with the Fi/ix 
non ramofa fcolopendrioides of Plumier, becaufe that is not auriculated, Vid. 
Mant. p. 79. 
XXIL. Lonchitis altifima, pinnalis utringque, feu ex utrogque latere auriculatis. 
Cat. p. 16. Tab. 31. Lonchitis glabra minor Plum. p. 19. Fig. 28. An Filix, 
few lonchitis alpera Famaicenfis eclatior pinnis longioribus utrinque auriculatis, 
fubtus punctatis, cy obtuftortbus denticellis [pinofa. Plukenet, Almag. p. 152? 
Lonchitis Americana glabra alis latioribus CG brevioribus crebrins difpoftis: Bob. 
hift. Ox. part. 3. p. 568. 
That part of this Lonchztis which came to my Hands was about three 
Foot long, having a very {trong middle Rib or Stalk, furrowed fore 
ward, and round backwards, reddifh and fhining, being fet at every three 
quarters of an Inch with Pinaule or Leaves about an Inch long, and half as 
broad, being whole without incifures to near their tops. Each Pinnula had 
two Auricles, one of each fide, as well under as above, at the Bafe of the 
Pinnula, that above being moft difcernible. They have two rows of ferrugi- 
neous Spots, one on each fide of the middle Rib. 
This was brought from Jamaica by Sir Arthur Rawdons Gardener, and com- 
municated to me by Dr. Sherard. 
XXII. Lonchitis altifima, pinnulis raris non laciniatis. Cat. p. 16. Tab. 32. 
This Lozchitis was about five Foot high, having about a Foot and a half 
long, roundifh, dark brown, or blackith Foot-Stalk ; the Pinne were about 
two Inches long, about three quarters of an Inch broad at Bafe, where they 
parted from the middle Rib, from whence a) decreas’'d to the end, which 
was 
