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largeft, about four Inches long, and one and an half broad in the middle 
where broadeft, being narrow at beginning and end, {mooth, having one 
middle, and fome tranfverfe Ribs of a dark green colour, fomething like 
Harts- Tongue. 
It grew inthe fhady thick Woods on the South fideof Mount Diablo, 
How Dr. Plukenet comes to be angry with me for calling this minor 
Mantiff. p.81. or how he comes to call it folio ampliffimo in his Almageft he 
beft knows. iia 
XLII. Hemionitidi afinis Filix major Triftda auriculata pinnis latifimis ff- 
nuatis. Cat. p.18. Tab.42. Flix few hemionitis ditta Caribeorum ampliffimis fe- 
liis trifoliata. Plukenet. Almag. p.155. Phyt.Tab.r91. Fig. 3. 
This has a Root four Inches long, made up of many round black Scales, 
lying onone another, witha great many black Fibers and Filaments, draw- 
ing its Nourifhment. The Stalk rifes two Foot high, at coming out of the 
Earth it is covered with a ferrugineous Mofs,} is fmooth, of a light red- 
difh brown colour, and divided towards the top into three broad Leaves 
or Pinne, two being fet oppofite oncto another, and one being at top, which 
is the largeft, being ten Inches long, and four broad, near the Bafe, where 
broadeft, varioufly finuated, or cut in on the edges, making {mall irregular 
Segments on the Margin, of a yellowith green colour, and thin, having one 
middle Rib, and feveral tranfverfe ones, along which are rows of ferrugi- 
neous Spots, where ties the Seed. The undermoft pair of Pinge have Ears, 
or Appendicule, taking their beginning from the Bafe of cach Pinne, and 
being like it in every thing, only fmaller. 
It grew on a woody ihady Hill, near the Banks of the Rio Cobre, by the 
Orange Walk in the Crefcent Plantation. If this be what Pifo means, he fays 
tis very opening, purging of Choler, cutting and aperitive above the Euros 
pean Polypodinm. } 
XLUL. Filix major in pinnas tantum divifa, raras, latiores, oblongas, frriatas, 
"ex adverfo fitas, & non crenatas. Cat.p. 18. Tab. 41. Fig. i. 
This, from a black knobbed tuberous Root, rofe to about two Foot 
high, by a cornered light brown Stalk, which when about nine Inches high, 
had Pinna {et on it, always oppofite to one another, at about an Inches di- 
(tance. Each of them were four Inches long, and more than an Inch broad 
in the middle where broadeft, being narrow at beginning and end, having one 
middle, and feveral tranfverfe parallel appearing Ribs, or Strie, of a dark 
brown colour, equal at the edges or Margin, of a frefh green colour, and 
{mooth. 
It grew on the fides of Mount Diablo, inthe middle of the Ifland. 
Thisis not the Adianthum Famaicenfe lonchitidis falcatis folus, crc. Plurenet. 
Alm, p. it. Phyt. Tab. 253- Fig. 1. This of Dr. Plukenet 1 conjeCture to be 
the Adianthum nigrum majus non ramofum, pinnulis c furculis rarioribus craffs 
ey trapezit in modum figuratis defcribed by me hereafter, which F. Plumier has 
figured: Zab. 47. under the Title of Adianthum nigrum ramo{um pulverulentum 
c& falcatum. 
XLIV. Filix major in pinnas tantum divifa, raras, oblongas lata{que crenatas. 
Cat.p.18.. Filix Famaicenfts folits femel fubdivifis, pinnulis obtuftoribus cofte ad 
nafcentibus forbi aucupsria foliis quodammodo referentibus. Plukenet. Alm. p.155. 
Phytogr. Tab. 291. Fig. 1. Filix Americana major non ramofa, alis integrss 
amplis profundius crenatis, ad quemlibet nervum obliquum binis macularum ordinibus 
notatis Bob. hift. Ox. part.3. p- 571. Filix Famaicenps hirfuta forbi aucuparia fo- 
lia quodammodo referens. Ejufd. ibid. p.576. bi minor five Chameafilix Famai- 
cenfis 
