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O4 The Natural Fiiftory of Jamaica. 
colour than thofe of the Adiantum foliis Coriandri. The Seed lies in a 
rufty Line along the Margin of the Pisne. Of this there are fome varie- 
ties as to largenefs, crc. 
_ This grew on a fhady Gully’s Banks, beyond Zroopers Quarters, near the 
Town of St. Fago dela Vega, and in other inland Woods of this Ifland. 
Pifo commends this, and fays, that ‘twas commonly ufed in Brafile for Ex- 
pectorating tough Phlegm, and for other the ufes, are ufually made of Ez- 
repean Maiden-Hair. 
— Ttake this to be Conambai-miri five adianti {pecies prior vel Avcnca Luftta 
nis. Pif. the Figure and Defcription agreeing with it as his fecond Kind of 
the fame agrees with the Filix non ramofa minor caule nigro, Gc. defcribed 
above p. 35. of this Book. 
LXXIII. Adiantum nigrum majus non ramo{um, pinnulis & furculis rarioribus, 
craffis  Trapezii in modum figuratis. Cat. p.r1. Adianthum Famaicenfe lonchi- 
tidis falcatis foliis, ramofum pediculis [plendentibus nigris. Plukenct. Almag.p.1x. 
Phyt. Tab.253. Fig. 1. Adiantum Famaicenfe lonchitidis falcatis foliis ramofum, 
pediculis [plendentibus nigris, Bob. hiff.Ox. part. 3. p. 587. An Adiantum ni- 
grum pinnulis lonchitidis ferratis minus. Plum. p.3r. Tab. 48. Lonchitis ramofa, 
pediculis nigris, pulverulenta. Plum. Tournef. Inft. p.539 ? 
This as to heighth, ftalk, ec. was the fame with the foregoing, only the 
Twigs came out more rarely, viz. at about an Inch’s diftance, and were not 
fo thick fet with Pénnule or Leaves, fo that there was a confiderable empty 
{pace between them, but for fhape, feed, thicknefs, ec. they were the fame, 
though much {maller. 
It grew in the inland Woods of this [fland. 
LXXIV. Adiantum nigrum minus non ramofum, pinnulis majoribus craffis Tra 
pexii in modum foguratis. Cat. p. 2X. : 
This hada {mail repent Root, having black Fibers to draw its Nourifh- 
ment, from whence fprang many Leaves fix Inches high, with Twigs and 
Pinnule, exactly like the firft Adiantum nigrum maximum, ec. only the Mar- 
gin of the Piznule were very caGly indented, they were not altogether fo 
thick or dark coloured, 
It grew by the way fide on Archers Ridge, and in other the inland woody 
parts of this J{land. 
This which is figured by Dr. Plukenet Phyt. Tab. 125. Fig.2. has only a 
Stalk, furculi & pinnae, and is therefore, according to me, not ramofe, notwith- 
ftanding what Dr. Plukemet fays in his Mantiffa, p.5. (take is to differ from 
the immediately preceding, as may appear by comparing his own Figure and 
F.Plumiers, Tabe 47. This laft I take to be another Fern of the Doctors 
own figuring Phyt. Tab. 253. Fig. 1. He likewife doubts I have made a 
third Plantof this one, viz. Zrichomanes majus, totum, album, pinnis aculeatis, 
trapezii figura, Which is his Filicula maritima ex infulis Caribbeis, Ge. Phyt. 
Tab. 286. Fig. 1.a quite different Plant, as is plain from what is faid above. 
LXXV. Adiantum nigrum non ramofum majus, pinnulis majoribus tenuibus 
in Trapezii modum figuratis. Cat. p.21. Tab, 55. Fig. 2. 
This rofe to about a Foot and an half high, having a very polite, black 
fhining, Stalk, with no ferrugineous Hair on it, the Pinnule being frequent, 
and exactly like thofe of the precedent Kind, not fe much indented, but of 
a yellowifh green colour, and very thin. On the upper Margin of them, 
in a ferrugineous Welt, lies the Seed. The Stalk was divided into two or 
three Twigs. : 
_ Tt grew with the former. 
: LXXXI_ Adian- 
