MVERVVORT HORTUS JAr,IAICENST9. iSQ 



Biou'no calls this Che bearded platisma, frequent in the woods of Jamaica, of a w hitish 

 ash colour, and remarkable for its Ijiuck beard. 



- 2. FLAVICANS. YEU.OW. 



Lutea, fihris sub-tsquaUbiis subrigidis intfrtejitis. Browne, p. 80. 

 FoHaceoiis, glabrous, fulvnis, branched, linear, rouadis^;, saiooui ; shield 

 plane -margined, of the same colour. 



Biowne calls tiiis the yellow rigid lisiifa, which is a little moss}' plant, growinp; com- 

 nipiil V ill every part of the woods ; its fibres seeui to be pretty even in every putt, and 

 generally connected in an irregular tufted form. 



3. LURIDUS. I.URID. 



Imbricate ; lobes orbicular, crenate, brown green, paler linderneath ; shields 

 hlack^ beconauig convex. 



4. FUNGOIDES. rtJNGUS-LIKE. 



Wliitish, leprous, tubercled," elevated, headed, of different forms, souewhat 

 fteslLy. 



5. PANNOSUS. RAGGED. 



Crustaceous, below black-hairy, above obsoicteiy manj'-lobed, shields convex, 

 reddish. 



6. IMPRESSUS. MARKED. 



Crustaceous, white, orbicular, concave, blueish, white margined. 



7. GOSSYPIMUS. COTTONY. 



Cfustaceous, capillary, wooUy-tomentose, white, orbicular, concave; sliield 

 black, white-margined. 



8. PICTU3. PAINTED. 



Imbricate ; leaves many, sinuated, the disk from the centre whitish ; shield 

 black, white- margined. 



9. COCOES. 



Imbricate; leaves adn ate, sinuated, whitish; shield partly black. 



10. DAM.ECORNIS. BUCK-HORNED. 



^oluiceous, many-parted, dicbetomo9j smooth; summits bifi 1, belov/ tomen-i 

 tuse, with peltate margins. 



11. LACIKIATUS, LACINIATED. 



Foiiaceous, rigid, depressed, with irregular incisions, smooth, tonientose 

 below. 



12. CERATOPIIYLLUS. WAX-LEAVED. 



Foliaceous, upright, laciniated ; leaflets obtuse, horny. 



13. DIAPHANOUS. CLEAR. 



Folinre.^iis, mcmbranaceous-pellucid blue, tender, laciniated, undulate-piiited 5 

 jacisjcHS curved ; shields scattered, ferruginous, 



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