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The Natural Hiftory of Jamaica. 
two Inches the longeft way, were ferrated when young, but when old 
have a rufty coloured Welt round the edyes, and are finuated, fo that ir 
would in differing Agesimpofe on people, making them believe it were a 
differing Plant. 
It was brought from Famaica by Sit Arthur Rawdon's Gardener, and com- 
municated from him to me by Dr. Sherard. 
XXXV. Trichomanes foliolis longioribus eleganter [uperna prafertim parte la 
ciniatis. Cat.p.17. Tab. 36. Fig. 3. An trichomanes major foliis longis auriculatis- 
Baniff. Cat. Raii. hift. p.1928 2 Adianthum feutrichomanes Berraudenfe maximum 
ferratis foliis anriculatum, Plukenet: Almageft. p.9 ? Phyt. Tab. 25. Fig. 12 
The Root of this has many capillary brown Fibers, from whence rife a 
great many Stalks, black, fhining, and {mall, about fix Inches high, being 
very thick fet, even almoft from the Ground, at about an eighth part of an 
Inches diftance, with Pinze, {ometimes oppofite, fometimes alternatively, not 
half an Inch long, nor an eighth part broad, very much cut in onthe edges, 
efpecially the upper fide, having on the backfide of the Leaf, fome large 
ferrugincous Spots, in which are the Seeds. 
It grew out of the Fiflures of the Rocks, of each fide on the Rio d’ Oro, near 
Mr. PAilpor’s Plantation in fixteen Mile Walk. 
XXXVI. Zrichomanes, foliolis dentatis, fuperiore vatcre auricu\atis. Cat. p. 17. 
Adianthum feu filix trichomanoides Famaicenfts pinnulis anviculatis ad bafin ftricti- 
oribus cy varius dentatis major. Pluken. Alm. p.9. Phyt. Tab. 253. Fig. 5. Cha- 
mefilix Famaicenfis trichomanoides alis oblongis ad bafin ftrictioribus G anritis. 
Bob. hift. Ox. part.3. p. 573. Adianthum Americanum alis amplioribus ex angufto 
principio {cfe dilatantibus G dentatis. Ejufd. ibid. p. 591. An Adiantum Ber- 
mudenfe minus pinnulis obtufis ¢ dentatis, lonchitidis in modum aunricniatis. 
Ejufd. itid. vel Adianthum five Trichemanes Bermudenfe maxmum ferratis 
foliis auriculatum. Pluken. Almaz. p. 92 Phyt. Tab. 125. Fig. 1? Triche- 
& 
mancs Americanum latifolium dentatum. Tournefort. El. Bot. p. 431. Inft. 
. 540. 
j This has a great many reddifh brown hairy Fibrills, or Filaments for Roots, 
fending up Leaves an Inch or Inch and half long, being altogether green : 
there are four or five, or twice that number of pairs of roundifh, green, quar- 
ter of an Inch Diameter’d Pizze, fometimes fet oppofite, fometimes alterna- 
tively tothe green middle Rib. Sometimes they are indented, or cut in on the 
edges, with Auricles or {mall Appendices upwards, at other times not indented, 
having one odd one at the end larger than the reft. On the backfides of 
thefe Pizuule are wormy, long, ferrugineous Spots. 
The differing Figures of this Plant in feveral States or Ages have given 
occafion for fome miflakes about! it, it having feveral Faces in {eyeral Sea- 
fons. 
Ic grows out of the Fiffures of the moifter Rocks near the Banks of 
Rio d Oro, towards the North fide of this Ifland, as weil as in Barbadoes 
and Bermudas. 
XXXVI. Filix maxima in pinnas tantam divifa oblongas latafque non crenatas. 
Cat.p.17, Tab. 37. 
This rifes to about four Foot high, having a light reddifh brown coloured 
Stalk, which near the Root has fome ferrugineous Mofs or Hairs, and at a- 
bout a Foor and a half high, begins to have Pine. They go out alterna- 
tively at abour three quarters of an Inches diftance out of oppofite fides 
of the middie Rib, which has an odd Pinvza or Lobe at the end, clofing 
the Stalk. bach of the Pinne is about fix inches long, and one and an ia 
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