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The Natural Hifory of Jamaica. 
It is given again{t Endemial Difeafes, cures intermitting Féavers, tops 
Coughs, and opens the Belly. The Juice mix’d with the Blood of a Hen, 
cools the heat coming of Gun-Powder, or hor Oil. AL ALS 
LXV. Filix nen ramofa minima, vaule nigro, furcalis raris, pianulis ancn- 
ftis,raris, Lrevitus, acntis, fultus niveis. Cat. p.r0. Tab. §3. Fig. 1, wt 
This was in every thing the tame with the Filix non ramofa minor,* cin}: 
nigro furculis raris, pinnulis ancuflis, dentatis,rarts, brevibus, acutes, fubtes vives. 
Cat. Fam. p.r0. defcribed above, p. 35. only not over halfits bignefs, fo thar 
tis not the fame with that, nor confequently with Dr.Plukenet’s, dditethyn 
Calomelanos, &c. which I have in my Catalogue made the fame with ir, 
it grew with the former in Famaica. 
LXVI. Filix non ramofa major, caule nigro, furculis raris, pinnulis anguftis, ra 
+15, longis, dentatis. Cat.p.20. Tab. 30. Fig. 2. 
This agrced very exactly with the preceding Fern, only it -vas four times 
as large as it, and the Pinne were much longer, and indented on the 
edges, fo that it might almoft feem referable to the ramofeKind, the back- 
fides of the Leaves or Pinne are not covered over with a white Meal as the 
precedent, butare gray or light rufty. This Meal is the Seed. The upper 
fides of the Pinne were of a very dark green colour. 
It grew on the Rocks upon the Banks of Orange River, and Rio Ore, 
neat Mr. PAi/pot’s Plantation in the North fide. 
It is eafie to fee this is not the ddianthum JFamasicenfe lonchitidis falcaris fe- 
liis, &c. Plukenet. Alm.p.i1. Phyt. tab.25 3- fig. t. as Dr. Plukenet queftions 
in his Mantiffa p.6. That is another Plant before defcribeds ATX 
LXVII. Rute marari« accedens Filicula nom ramo[a minira; pinnuliy ful rotan 
dis profunde {ciffis. Cat. p-28) Tab. 52. Figs3. 
This had a {mall folid black Root, covered with a‘ black hairy MofS to- 
wards its top, and many dark brown Filaments, whereby it draws its nourifh- 
ment, from whence rife nine or ten Leaves about three Inches high. The Stalks 
are of a dark green colour, and at an Inches diftance from the Ground, are 
divided into feveral Twigs, fet alternatively, thofe in the middle being largeft, 
about three quarters of an Inch long, made up of Pinnle fer alternatively, 
being very {mall. roundifh, deeply cut in on the edges, of a pale green 
colour above, and underneath having very many ferrugineous Spors, da 
which lies the Seed. . tidy , 
It grew among the Rocks on the Banks of Rio d’ Oro, between {ixteen 
Mile Walk and'st: Maries: © 0 | 
LXVIN. Rate murarie accedens Filix minor: won ramofa, pinnulis fubrotundis, 
profande fciffis. Cat. p. 21. Filix pinnulis criftatis Plumicr. p. 16. > Figeus. A. 
Filix minor Famaicenfis alis obtufis, pinnulis criftatis profund: .[ciffis: Bob: hift. 
Ox. part. 3. p. 58t. : | 
The top of the Root of this Fern fent up a great number of Leaves, about 
a Foot high, whofe Stalks were of a dark green colour, cornered; and about 
fix Inches from the Ground, divided into Twigs, fet oppofite to onc ano- 
ther underneath, and alternatively above, at about threé quarters of an 
Inches diftance afunder. The Twigs at bottom, orneareft the-Roor,; where 
largeft, ‘were about an Inch and an half long, having Pinaule or Leaves 
plac'd alternatively on them, being about nine pair, with an odd oneat end. 
They had a {mall Foot-Stalk, were roundifh, very deeply cut in on: the 
edges, of a dark green colour above; and underneath covered very thick 
with large and many rufty Spots, ta which lay its Seed. 
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