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The Natural Hifory of | Jamaica. 
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— The Juice mix’d with the Oil of Sergelim, (or Sefamum) Ginger, and 
long Pepper, and anointed on the Head, Cures the Cholerick Headach. 
Fi. i. 
It grew on the Trees, on the South fide of Mount Diallo, and other 
the Truncs of large Trees, in the mountainous, woody, inland parts of 
this Ifland. 
XL. Filix major (candens in pinnas tantum divifa, oblongas latiffimas non cre 
natas. Cat.p.18. Tab. 39. 
This had a Stalk with Fibrils, as other the fcandent Ferns, by which jr 
climbed the Trees as they, being like them in every thing. From this rofe 
a pale green cornered middle Rih, like thar of other Ferns, to about a Foot 
and a half high, towards the top of which were two or three pair of Pinne, 
with an odd one at the end, they were much broader than the precedent, 
being about five Inches long, and half as broad, having one middle Rib, 
and feveral lateral Fibers, being broadeft in the middle, and decreafing both 
ways, ending in a point, and intire without any indentures. Sometimes the 
number of Pinne was only two, aiid fometimes three. 
It was brought from Famaica by Sit Arthur Rawdon’s Gardener, and com- 
municated to me by Dr. Sherard. 
Any Perfon who compares the Defcription of this Plant, and its Figure 
with Dr.Plukenet’s Filicifolia lonchitidis facie Famaicenfis, exc. Alm. p. 152. 
Phyt.Tab.286. Fig. 2. will not doubre with him, Mantis. p.79. whether it be 
the fame. 
XLI. Filix major in pinnastantum divifa, oblongas, anguftafque, non crenatas. 
Cat. p. 18. Tab. 40. Filix non ramo{a alis longis falicinis alternis non crenatis, 
Bob. hift. Ox. part. 3. p. 572. | | 
This had fometimes a blackifh, and at other times a light brown coloured 
Stalk, or middle Rib, rifing to two Foot high, at about 9 Inches from the 
Ground, be fer with Pizne, which were fometimes oppofite one to another, 
and fometimes fet alternatively at about three quarters of an Inches di- 
ftance. They were about four Inches long, and not over half an Inch broad 
in the middle where broadeft, equal on the edges, beginning narrow, and 
ending in a long narrow point, being of a dark green colour above, and 
underneath having an eminent middle Rib, and {ome tran{verfe ones, wholly 
covered over with a ferrugineous Mofs, in which is the Seed. 
There is another variety of this, differing only in magnitude, being not 
over half fo big, in every thing elfe the fame. 
They grow very plentifully on the Banks of the Rio @ Oro, near Archers 
Ridge, between fixteen Mile Walk, and St. Mary's in the North-fide. 
This is not the Filix non ramofa Famaicenfts pinnatis foliis integris, crc. of 
Dr. Plukenct’s Almageft. p. 154. figured by him Tab. 285. Fig. 1. Phyt. as he 
‘doubts in his Mantiff. p.81. This may appear by this Defcription, and their 
Figures compared. What he means by faying | had rectus have made it 
this, when he is of another Opinion the Line before, is to me a Riddle. 
XLII. Filix minor plerumque trifida, pinnis obloncis lati{que non crenatis. Cat. 
p.18. Tab. 41. Fig.2. Filix famaicenfis amplifimo folio phyllitidis facie tri- 
phylla. Plukenet. Almag. p. 154. 
This has a folid roundifh Root, covered over with a hairy ferrugincous - 
Mofs, and many long Filaments of a dark brown colour, drawing its Nou- 
rifhment as other the {maller Ferns. The Stalk is of a light brown colour, 
firiated, about nine Inches high, at the top divided for the moft part into 
three Leaves or Pinne, that one in the middle or top of the Stalk being 
: largelt, 
