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The Natural Hiffory of Jamaica. 
LI. Phyllitis ramofa trifida. Cat. p. 19. Tab. 45. Fig. 2. Filix Famaicensss 
non ramofatrifoliata anguftifolia caule Levi. Bob. hift. Oxon. part. 3. p. 572. : 
This, from a blackith tuberous Root, with many Ligsle, fends up five or 
fix Stalks about a Foot high, having a reddifh cornered fhining middle Rib, to 
which at about two Inches or le{s interval, are {et oppofite to one another, 
(after the manner of the phy/litis multifida) Pinnule or Leaves. Three Pinnulz 
for the moft part fland on the fame very fhort common reddifh Foot-Stalk 
that Pinnula in the middle being the longeft, v=. an Inch and an half long, 
and not over a quarter of an Inch broad in the middle where broade't 
{mooth, of a yellowith green colour, with reddifh Ribs, and of the con. ° 
fiftence of the Leaves of of Phyllitis, or Hemionitis Multifida, and being 
covered all over on their Backs with ferruginecous Powder, fuppofed to be 
the Seed. 
This in every thing comes very near the Lingua cervina foliis cofte inna|- 
centibus. Tournefort. El. Bot. p. 431. Tab. 324. or Hlemionitis altera. Dal. 
Lugd.1218. 
{ gathered it in the woody inland parts of this Ifland. 
By the Figure and Defcription of this, compared with the Filicifolia phyllitis 
ditta, few lingua cervina mincr crifpa, folio multifido ramofa Plukenet. Alm. p. 1 54. 
Phyt. Tab 248. Fig.2. one would wonder how this Author fhould affirm 
thefe Plants to be the fame, as he does in his Maunti([a, p. 81. 
Lil. Phyllitidi multifide afinis filix [candens, in pinnas tantum divifa, oblon- 
gas, anguftas non crenatas. Cat. p.19. Tab. .46. Fig. 1. An Filix Scandens 
periploce foliis Famaicenfts. Plukenet. Alm, p. 156 ? 
This has a round Root the top of which is covered with a blackifh 
Hair, having many ftrong Filaments: drawing its Nourifhment. From hence 
rifes a round, {mooth, {mall, fliining, reddifh brown Stalk, turning its {elf 
round any Tree it comes near, rifing to twelve or fifteen Foot high, at 
every three or four Inches diftance, putting forth Leaves, ftanding for the moft 
part oppofite one to another, on fometimes an Inch, or two Inches long round 
Stalks, divided ufually into four Pizne or Leaves which are three Inches long, 
and about an Inch broad at the Bafe where broadeft, whence they decteafe 
to the end, being yery green, and in confiftence, {mell, gc. like the Leaves 
of Phyllitss. 
It grew plentifully on Mount Diablo, Archers Ridge in Mountain River 
Plantations, and in feveral other the mountainous, and inland woody parts 
of this Jfland. 
LIL. Phyllitidi multifide afinis, flix fcandens in pinnas tantum divifa, ol- 
longas, anguftas laciniatas. Cat. p. 19. Lonchitis fcandens, Brafiliana pinnulis 
eleganter laciniatis Tournefort. El. Lot. p.430. Inft. p. 539. 
This, as to manner of growth, ¢>c. is the fame with the former, but 
differs in this, that the Pinze are broader, fhorter, and much more lacini- 
ated, or cut into the edges, fo that fome of the Leaves are almoit pal- 
mated, efpecially the under ones, thofe towards the top of the Stalks being 
like the former, only Laciniated on the edges, where on the Sections on 
the backfide of the Leaf is a ferrugineous Mofs covering the Segments, 
which is the Seed. And of this fort again there are infinite varieties of the 
Leaves. 
»__ This grew about the Truncs of Trees in a Wood near Captain Acywood’s 
Houfe, in St. Maries, in the North fide of the Mfland of Famaica. 
- Ithink the Title I give this very plain, zvéz. that this Fern comes near to 
the Phyllitis Mulifida, a Plant very well known in Enrope. 
LIV. Filix 
