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The Natural Hisflory of Jamaica. 
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XLVIIL. Filix minor, in pinnas tantum divifa, crebras, non crenatas, auriculz 
tas, & lineis pulverulentis aver{a parte notatas. Cat, p. 18. Tab.44. Fig. 2. 
This in magnitude, manner of growth, cc. feemed to be exactly the fame 
with the former, only the Pizve in lieu of one Auricle on the under fide, had 
two {mall ones, one onits under, and another on its upper fide, and in lieu 
of {pots on its backfide, containing the Seed, there are two Lines running 
by the fide of the middle Rib, containing the fame. 
It grew with the former. 
No body can doubt whether this be the fame with Dr.Plakenet’s Filicifolia 
lonchitidis facie Famaicenfts, Crc. Alm.p.152. Phyt. Tab.286. Fig. 2. when this 
defcribed here has very long Pinaule, and Lines on its Back, and the other 
has {pots, ¢c. as appears by comparing their Defcriptions and Figures. 
XLIX. Filix minor, ruffa lanugine tota obducta, inpinnas tantum divifa, raras, 
non crenatas, {ubrotundas, Cat. p.19. Tab.45. Fig.t. An Filicula crifpa lanu- 
gine hepatici coloris veftita, Plukenct. Alm. p. 150? Aa Filix hirfata & lutef- 
ceate pulvifculo fordefcens. Tournef. Inft- p. 537? 
This was about a Foot and a half high, its Stalk was round, and all co- 
vered with a ferrugineous coloured Hair, the Pizve were placed about an 
Inches diftance, each being faftned to the middle Rib, bya very {mall Foot- 
Stalk. Each of the Pisne were about an Inch long, half as broad at round 
Bafe where broadeft, and whence they decreafed to the end, which was 
round, they were all covered over with a rufty woolly Hair, fufficiently di- 
{tinguifhing them from any others of this Kind. The Pinne were likewife 
all covered over with Seed on the back of the Leaf. 
Sir Arthur Rardon’s Gatdener brought it from Famaica, and Dr. Sherard 
communicated it to me. 
When Dr Plukenct pleafesto figure and defcribe the abovemention'd Fili- 
cula we fhall find if ic be the fame. 
L. Filix minor, in pinnas tantum divifa, ex adverfo fitas, oblongas, latafque 
non crenatas, inftmis ad bafin auriculatis, Cat p.19. Filix few polypodium Fa- 
maicenfe, hydrophylli Morini fere divifuris, fummo folio raris denticulis profun 
dius crenato. Flukenct. Alm. p. 153. Phyt- Tabi 289, Fig-3. An filix few po- 
lypodium Famaicenfe latifolinm pinms infimis auritis. Ejufd. Alm. p. 153 ? 
This has a roundifh {mall Root, with many round Thongs and Filaments, _ 
drawing its Nourifhment. From this rife Leaves about a Foor high, having 
a cornered ferrugincous Stalk, to which about fix Inches from the Ground, 
are fet oppofite to one another, the Pinne, being about four pair, with an 
odd one at end. They are about three Inches long, and more than one broad 
in the middle where broadeft, from whence they decreaic, ending ina point, 
being of a rufty green colour, having a middle Rib, and fome tranf{verfe 
ones. ‘The undermoft pair of Piane have an Ear or <ppendicula at Bale, 
fhap'd in every thing like the Pénne, only not fo large, and more blunt. 
The uppermoft Leaf or Pinna, is fomewhat finuated or indented. 
I found it in the mountainous and woody inland parts of chis Ifland. 
This is not the Filix parva Virginiana, pinnulis productioribus, rc. Plukenet. 
Phyt. Tab.287. Fie.r. Almageft, po 152. as he feems to conjecture, in his 
Mantiff p.79. but chat abovementioned of his Alm. p. 153. Phyt. Tab. 289. 
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