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Lhe Natural Hiffory of Jamaica. 
XC. Adiantum nigrum ramo[um minus, ramulis furculis e> pinaulis raris, mini- 
mis, {ubrotundis. Cat. p.r3. Tab.13. Fig.2. 
This rifes to nine Inches high, having black Stalks at coming out of the 
Earth, covered with a rufty Mofs, having Twigs towards the top, coming 
out at near an Inches diftance from one another, fet oppofite for the mott 
part. On thefe come the Pinnule, not frequently, but rarely plac’d, being 
the fmalleft of any of this Kind, leaving a confiderable defect betweea 
each other, being varioufly finuated or cut in on the edges, fo thar 
they appear divided into Pirzule, making it ramofz, and of a dark green 
colour. 
It grew amongft fome Rocks below the Town of St. F2go dela Vega, near 
the River. 
XC]. Adiantum five capillus Veneris. F.B. Raii hiff. p.147. Cat. p. 23: 
This was brought from famaica by Fames Harlow, and given me by 
Dr. Sherard. It ought to have been among the Ferns that are not ramofe. 
XCI. Adiantum nigrum majus, ramofum, coriandri folio. Cat. p.23. Adian- 
tum fruticofum coriandri folio Famaicenfe, pediculis foliorum politiore nitore ni- 
gricamtibus, forte adiantum fruticofum Brafilianum. Pluken, Almag. p.10. Phyt. 
Lab. 254. Fig. 1. An Adiantum fruticolum Athiopicum pinnulis amplis, fubrom 
tundis, fuperne dentatis, media pinnarum parte petiolis infidentibus. Bjufd. Alm. 
p.10. Fhyt. Tab. 253. Fige22? Adiantum valeari fimile c> ramofifimum. Plum, 
Tournef. ps 543? a 
This rifes two or three Foot high, having a ftrong, black, very polite, 
and fhining Stalk, branch'd out at unequal intervals alternatively. Thefe 
Branches have Twigs fet alternatively with Pisnule or Leaves, in Foct- 
Stalks, fhape, colour, bignefs, thinnefs, feed, incifures, ¢c. agrecing ex- 
actly with the Adiantum foliis coriandri, C.B. only this is ramofe or branch’d, 
and is much larger and taller. 
It grew on the fides of a fhady woody Gully, beyond Zreopers Qusrters, 
and in other great Woods of this Ifland, and in Beriudas. 
XCIN. Adiantum nigrum, ramofum, maximum, foliis majoribus Trapezii in me- 
dum figuratis. Cat. p.23. Tab. 59. 
This was much larger than the former, having a very black and polite 
Stalk, fhining, rifing three or four Foot high in Branches and Twigs exa@ly 
like it, the Piznule were as to colour, thinnefs, feed, ec. exactly the fame, 
only they were of the figure of ‘a 7rapezium, and twice or thrice as large, 
and very little cut in on the edges, where on the two fides, making the 
Angle oppofite to the Petiolus, were the Seeds in a ferrugineous Weic. 
It grew in the more inland large Woods of this Ifland. 
This is defcribed by Mr. Bobart. hift. Ox. part.3. p. 587. under the: Titic 
of Adiantum ramofum foliis trapezii dentatis, Plum. 
XCIV. Filix ramofa maxima feandens, ramulis raris, pinnulis erebris, latis, 
brevibus, obtufis. Cat. p 23. Tab.60. Flix ramofa Malabarica, alis integris, cl- 
ternis Cy acutis rotundius crenatis para-panna-mara-vara, F{. M. Bob. part. 3. hift. 
Ox. p. 583. 
This fad a Stalk as big as ones Thumb, applying its felf to the Truacs 
of Trees, and taking faft hold of their Barks, like fvy, by means of many 
Fibrils and Clavicles it {trikes therein, rifing by this means fifteen or twenty 
Foot high, and being covered over with a rufty coloured Mofs, as moit 
Ferns are. About five or fix Foot from the Ground, it has Leaves going 
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