The Natural Ehifiory of Jamaica. 
93. 
It grew by the fides of Rio d’ Oro, near Mr. Philpot’s Plantation, between 
fixteen Mile Walk and St. Maries. 
LXIX Rata muraria major, foltis variis, fcil. oblongis integris, cy {ubrotundis 
ferratis. Cat.p. 21. Tab. 52. Fig. 2. 
This has a fmall folid Root, covered with fome fcaly rufty Hair, and 
having many long Strings and Filaments, whereby it draws its Nourifhment. 
From hence rife many Leaves about fix or nine Inches high, having 
pale green Stalks, divided towards the cop into feveral Twigs, coming out 
for the moft part oppofite to one another, haying fet on them Pinaule, or 
Leaves, two, or three pair, with an odd one at the end, they being almoft 
Round or Oval, much larger than thofe of Wall-Rue, and very orderly in- 
dented about the edges, of a pale green Colour. Inthe middle of thefe Leaves 
rife up others from the fame Root, having higher Stalks, and the Pésne fer 
‘after che fame manner, only longer and narrower than the firft Leaves. "They 
are Without incifures, and have on their backfides, by the Margin, a ferru- 
gincous Welt or Line, in which lies the Seed. 
It grew out of the Fiflures of the Rocks, on the Banks of Orange River, and 
Rio d’ Oro, in the middle of this lfland. 
This Plant is perfectly differing from Adianthum folits inferioritus Corie 
andri, ¢rc. Plukenet. Alm. p.g. and all the Plants this Author conjectures to 
be the fame with it, in his Alw, & Muntiffa, ps. 
LXX. Rata muraria maxima, foliis oblongis, crenatis. Cat. p. 21. Tab. 46. 
Fig. 2. 
“This had a folid {trong Root, covered with many large brown Scales, and 
having many capillary Fibrils, from whence rofe many dark green Stalks 
about a Foot high, divided into many Twigs, fet fometimes alternatively, and 
fometimes oppofite to one another, at about haif an Inch’s diftance one from 
another. On thefe were plac’d three or four pair of Pinnule or Leaves, with 
an odd one, being much lefler than the former, or thole of Rata Muraria, 
crenated or dented on the edges, being fmaller, more oblong, and lefs round 
than the preceding. 
It geew onthe rocky Banks, of Orange River, and Ris d’ Oro. 
LXXI. Filix nom ramofa minor, pinnulis crebris, obtufis, crenatis. Cat.p. 21. 
Tab. 54. Fig.t. 
This had a black oblong Root covered with many ends of the Foot- - 
Stalks of Leaves dropt off, and having long Thongs and Fibrils deeply 
fix’d inthe Ground. From hence rife green Stalks, blackifh at the Root, 
about a Foot and a half high, divided into Twigs, fet alternatively, on 
which the Pi#aule are very thick placd, fo as to leave no empty {pace be- 
tween them, being large, broad, blunt, indented, and of a dark green 
colour. 
It grew by the Rio d’ Oro, between St. Maries, and the North-fide. 
LXXIL. Adiantum nigrum maximum, non ramofum, pinnis crebris, majoribus, 
crafts, cr Trapexii in modum figuratis. Cat.p. rt. Tab. $5. Fig. 1. 
This has.a black Root, covered with a ferrugincous hairy Mofs, having 
many blach Fibers running into the Ground. It rifcs two Feot high, by a 
ftrong black Triangular Stalk, covered with ahairy ferrugineous Mofs, from 
whence, at about.a Foot from the Ground, proceed, at half an Inch’s di- 
ftance, alternatively, the Twigs, which are thick fect with Pinsule or Leayes, 
alternatively, each being an Inch long, and not over half fo broad, of .the 
figure of anirregular Lozenge, or ew being thicker, and of a dasker 
colour 
