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The Natural Hiffory of Jamaica. 
XXX. Lonchitidi afinis arbor anomala folic, alato & pinnarum crenis fractifero, 
Cat. p. 16. Hippoglof[o forte Cognata Surinamenfis, foliis cleandri fervratis, in 
crenarum extremo flofculos perminutes fanguineos gerentibus vel forte hemionitidi 
afinis, Breyn. pr. 2. p. 57. An Hemionitidi afinis Americana epiphyllanthos 
folio fompliciter pinnato, hyppoclolfi emulo, radice reptatrice lignofa ad foliorum 
crenas florida anguftiori c> longiori folio ramofa caul.{cens. Plukenet phyt. Tab. 
247. Fig.4°? 
"This otis rifeth to about eight Foot high, having Stems not much thicker 
than ones Thumb, whofe Wood is white and folid, with {mall Pith, and Bark 
is{mooth, of alight gray colour, a little ftriated, and fomething like that of F ir, 
to whofe Cyma or {pringing Gemma the top of the Tree is exactly like. The 
Leaves came out near the tops of the Branches without any order, are winged 
four Inches long, the Pinne being {et on to a middle Rib, at about half an 
Inches diftance, alternatively. They are about feven or nine in number, 
having an odd one at the end of the middle Rib, each of them is about an 
Inch and an half long, and three quarters of an Inch broad near the middle 
where broadeft, fhining fomething like the Leaves of Laurus Alexandrina, 
being of a dark green colour, f{mooth, having one middle Nerve, and feveral 
lateral ones. The principal of thefe Nerves end in fome little {mall notches 
at the Margin, in which come firft a ruflet or ferrugineous Mofs, and then 
out of the middle of that a very {mall rufler colour’d Flower on a {mall 
Foot-Stalk, after which follows {ticking clofe to the Margin of the Leaf, 
the Fruit, which is round, no bigger than a {mall Pins Head. It is made 
up of a great many, almoft round, dark brown or ferrugineous Seeds, fer 
round in a fungous Body, as may be eafily {een by a Microfcope. The 
Roots are for the moft part long Threads and Filaments, running into the 
crannies of the Rocks, feeking Nourifhment to the Plant. 
There is a variety of this with much broader Leaves. 
It grows among the woody Hills on the Honey-Comb Rocks, near 
Mr. Barchelor’s Houfe, cc. very plentifully. 
Ithink this a properer place for this Plant, than to be put in anocher, 
as Dr. Plakenet would do in his Adantiff. p. 81. 
XXXI. Trichomanes majus pinnis finuatis fwbtus niveis. Cat. p. 17. Tab. 35. 
Fig.1. Adianthum fen trichomanes maximum Americanum fubtus argentemm pin- 
uulis productioribus ferratis fummo caule involutis ex infula Famaicenft. Plukentt. 
Alm. p.9. An Trichomanes argenteum ad oras nigrum. Plum. Inft. p.540 ? 
This Plant has feveral long Filaments of a dark brown colour, coming 
from a folid Oblong {mall Root, covered over at the top with a blackifh 
hairy Mofs like other the Ferns. From thence rife many Leaves about a Feot 
long, having reddifh brown, roundifh, fhining Foot Stalks, and middle 
Ribs, on which the Pinue are fet fometimes oppofite to one another, fome- 
times alternatively, rarely towards the bottom, but near the rop as thick as 
they can ftand by one another, each Pinna being about half an Inch long, 
and a quarter broad at Bafe, where broadeft, and for the moft part ear’d, 
from whence it diminifhes, ending in a point. They are of an irregular Fi- 
gure, notch’d about the edges with fome finuations, and {mall incifures, 
being green above, and very white beneath, having on their Margin or edges, 
a ferrugineous Line or Mofs, containing its Seed. 
It grew on the fide of a woody Hill, amongft the Rocks, near Mr. Ellet 
fon’s Plantation in Liguanee, 
The odnefs of the Title made me doubt if this was Dr. Plukenet’s Adian- 
thum abovementioned, but he fhimfelf is pofitive in it. Mantiff. p. 9. therefore 
he muft explain how it comes to be pinnulis productioribus ferratis fummo canle 
involutis. XXXIL Zri- 
