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the Natural Hiftory of Jamaica. 
broad in the middle where broadeft, from a very fhort, or almoft no Foot- 
Stalk inereafing to the middle, and thence decreafing to a point, being 
equal on the Margin, very fmooth, having one middle Rib eminent on the 
under fide, from whence go tranfverfe Ribs to the fides of the Leaf, of 
a pale green colour in feveral things refembling the Leaves of Harts. 
Tongue. 
Ae grew on the fides of Mount Déablo, in going to the North fide of this 
Tf{land. 
The whole Face of this Plant differs from the Lonchitis paluftris maxima 
before defcribed, fo that there is no manner of Reafon to think them the 
fame, as Dr. Plukenct does in his Mantiff p. 81. 
XXXVIIL. Filix major ia pinnas tantum divifa oblongas latalque non crenatas 
a baft rotundiore ad apicem fe fenfim ancuftantes. Cat. p. 17. Filix Famaicenfis 
paftinace aquatice foliis alternis craffufcule dentatis pediculo {plendente nigro. 
Plukenct. Alm. p.152. Phyt. Tab. 285. Fig.2. Filix Americana maxima non 
ramofa, lobis integris acutioribus, ¢ ad margines rotundius crenatis, maculis rotun- 
dis pulverulentis afperfis.: Bob. hift. Ox. part. 3. p.57%. An Lingnacervina rae 
mola, nigris tuberculis palverulenta. Plum. Tournef. Inft.p. 546? 
The Stalk of this Fern was about two Foot and a half high, it was cor- 
nered and only branched into Pine, which agreed in moft things with the 
precedent; only at roundifh Bafe, where by a {mall Foot-Stalk they were fet 
on to the middle Rib, they were broadeft, viz. about three quarters of an 
Inch, and then decreafed, endingin a point, being about three Inches long, 
they were not fo regularly ftriated by parallel Lines as the former. 
{t was brought from Famaica by Fames Harlow, Sir Arthur Rawdon’s Gar- 
dener, and by Dr. Sherard givento me. 
This is not the Adjanthum Famaicenfe lonchitidis amplioribus foliis non ramo- 
fum, ec. Pluken. Phyt. Tab. 252. Fig. 5. which 1 believe is what I call p, 81. 
Trichomanes majus nigrum pinnis trapezii figura, latiffimis tenwibus. 
XXXIX. Filix major fcandens in pinnas tantum divifa oblongas lata{que non 
crenatas. Cat.p.17. Tab. 38. Filix Famaicenfis pinnatis fraxini foliis tenuiffime 
crenatis apicibus mucronatis. Plukenct. Almag. p. 153. Phyt. Tab. 286. Fiz. 3 
Filix fcandens Famaicenfis, pinnatis fraxini foliis Bob. hift.Oxon. part. p.57. 
Lingua cervina f[candens, foliis laurinis ferratis Plum. Tournef. Inft.p.545. An 
Filix Famaicenfs pinnatis fraxini foliis tenuiffime crenatis foliorum apicious obtu- 
fis@ fubrotundis. Plukenet. Phyt. Tab.r862 Fig. 4. An Filix Famaicenfts alato 
pediculo fraxinella foliis crenatis radice radic e repente. Eju(d. Almag. p.15 4) 
Zab.287. Fig.3 ? 
This had a crooked Stalk of a dark brown colour, cornered, fometimes 
{mooth, atother times covered with a ferrugineous hairy Mofs, as big as ones 
little Finger, fending out of each fide many feveral Inch long hairy caprzols, 
ticking to the Barks of Trees, and rifing by themto twenty or thirty Foot 
high, being greenifh, made up of many white Filaments within. Thefe Stalks 
or Roots fend out Leaves at about two Inches diftance a Foot and a half 
long, whofe Piane are {et on to the middle Rib, alternatively at about half 
an Inches diftance, being about three Inches long, and three quarters of an 
Inch broad, in the middle where broadeft, being narrow at beginning, and 
end, having one middle, and feveral tran{verfe Ribs, thin, fmooth, and of 
a pale green colour, like the Leaves of Harts-Tongue. 
There is a variety of this, whereof the Leaves are very fuperficially in- 
dented, and fimaller; and likewife another which is rounder at.end, being 
I {uppofe fromthe Age of the Plant. 
The 
