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XXVUL Lonchitis major pinnis longis anguftiffimifque. Cat. p. 16. Tab. 34. 
Lonchitis minor Famaicenfts pinnulis anguftis longis ad bafin auriculis rotundis 
donatis, Bob. hift.Ox. part. 3. p. 568: 
This has a large Root, folid, and of a whitifh green colour within, to- 
wards the top covered over with a ferrugincous Hair, and fending up feveral 
Leaves above a Foot high, having greenilh, white, and {mooth Foot-Stalks, 
about five Inches long, The Piaae are {et on to the middle Rib, fometimes 
oppofite, (chiefly below,) and fometimes alternatively having about the fixth 
part of an Inch diftance between the pairs, each of chem being about two 
Inches long, and a fixth part of an Inch broad at beginning where broadett, 
and whence they decreafe, ending in a point, being not at all ferrated, very 
{mooth, even, and of a grafly greencolour. ‘The round auricles mention’d 
by Mr.Bovart are very {mall. 
Ir grew out of the fifflures of the Rocks in the fhady Road, going to fix- 
teen Mile Walk. 
It feems to me impoffible that this fhould be what Dr. Plukenet thinks, 
Mantiff. p. 81. viz. Filix Famaicenfis Facee majoris Gerardi aut potius centaurei 
wajorts lutci Parkinfon. emula falcatis foliis iategris cr margine equali Almag. 
p54. 
XXVIL Palypodium minus pinnulis raris fubtus cimercis. Cat. p.16.  Filix 
polypodium ditta minima Famaicenfis folii averfa parte ferrugineo pulvere afple- 
nid rita circumguaque refperfis. Plukenet. Alm. p.153- Phyt. Tb.r89. Fig.r. Poly- 
podium minusVirginianum foliis brevioribus {ubtus argentew. Bobart. hifk. Oxon, 
part. 3. p. 563. Lab. ena. Plant. Capill. 
This has a round, blackifh, hard Root like other Polypodies only fmaller, 
covered in {ome places with a ferrugineous hairy Mofs, and creeping for a 
good length. From thence go many long fibrils into the Earth, of a reddifh 
brewn colour. At about haifan Inches diftance, this Root fends our Leaves,, 
which have gray, or light brown coloured Foot-Stalks two Inches long, the 
whole Leaf and Foot-Stalk being about four Inches high. The Pinne are 
not fo frequent as in the precedent, but more rare, {et almoft oppofite one 
tothe other, about three quarters of an Inch leng, and an eighth part broad, 
not laciniated, nor finuated, thick, on the upper fide of a yellowith green 
colour, on the under gray or whitifh, with fome rows of ferrugineous Spots 
on their edges, being the Seed. 
It grew on the Rocks, in a Wood on the fide of a Mountain, near 
Mr. Elletfon's Plantation in Liguanee. 
XXIX. Lonchitis minor pinnulis anguftis crebris tenuibus atrovirentibus. Cat. 
7.16. Filix feu Lonchitis Famaicenfs polypodii folio pediculis nigris. Plukenet 
Almaz. p. 152. 
This has a firm knobbed Root, as big as the top of ones little Finger, 
covered towards the top with fcaly brown Mofs, and having very many 
dark brown Fibres-going deep into the Earth. It fends up Leaves from fix 
Inches to two Foot long, their Foot-Stalks being brown, an Inch anda halt 
long, the Pinne are {et on to the Stalk, or middle Rib, not oppofite to one 
another, but alternatively, being cut into the middle Rib. Thefe are about 
three quarters of an Inch long, and not over a Twelfth part of an Inch 
broad at beginning where broadeft thin, and of a dark green colour, each 
having one middle Rib, on cach fide of which lies its See din redifh Spots : 
fometimes this is two Foot high, and the Pian almoft oppofite though very 
rarely. 
It grew on the woody Mountains near Mr. El/et/on’s Plantation in Li- 
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