fllO HOR-JUS JAMAICENSia moonwor-R 



but, in dry constitutions, the tea drank warm, is rather of service to relax the fibres, 

 Wiiicii in sucb uvc >j<.iif rally tou tense. The coamion J;.Uiuica niisletoe is very acrid ia 

 the tflite." 



S. PAUVIFOLIUS. SMALL- I.F.AVF.D. 



Peduticles axillary, triifij ; pedicels ORe-flortered ; leaves ovate, entire. iVt*. 



4. PAUC.lFLOItUS. rE\V-FLO'.Vri!F.D. 



Peduncles trichotoaiuus, shorter than tiie leaves ; leaves ob-ovate. Szff.. 

 Mo.NKZY Ereau Stc Baobab. 



MOONWORT. OSMUNDA. 



Ol. 24, OR. 2. Crjjptogamia flices. Nat or. Filices. 

 |3rn'. char Capsules distinct, disjjosed in a raceme m such manner as to loo'fe the 

 same vvciy, or else liiapeJ on the back of the pinna or division of the frond,. sessile, 

 sub- globular, opening transversei\, without any rin^ ; seedi very many, ex- 

 fLremelv miuute. i^ix species are indigenous to Juuiaicu. 



1. hirsuta. shaggy. 



Licnar'a clafi'or mat ricari.e folio sp'ca dupl'ci. ?!oane, v. J, p- 71, 

 t. 25, f. 6. Subhirsuta sctips caul tvs gtminis, Jroiidc bipinnata, 

 lobata et si'.b-crtnata. Browne, p. i07. 

 Scapes canline m jjuiis ; frond bipinnate, hirsute. 

 This rises a foot or more. In its highi r spikes, which are double, it exactly agree* 

 with the following species, </ww^//o^/a,- only the pinnu.es are longer, narrower, not 

 cut quite into uj<. mul-nb, -dud ot a paler green colour, something in their tiivisions 

 like the leaves of matncui a. Sloune. brDwne cails it the hai'i/ osmunda, with cre- 

 nated, oval, iobts, tou.niou m Jamaica, giouing in cool and rocky pistes, scidoia 

 using above liiteeii lucnes. 



2. ad:anthipolia. adia>thl'm-leaved. 



Lunar ia elutior, adiant! albi folio, dvplici spica. Sloane, v. I, p. 71. 



Scapes cauline in pairs ; frond super-decompound. 



This is souietiiiics about a toot, but mostly six or seven inches high, having a very 

 slender green stalk, at first coming out of the earth of a dark colour. At about four 

 inches irom the grou ;d, out of one side of the stalk, aris; s one br; n h, on winch twio-s 

 are set alternately, having several broad irregularly figured roundisn jjumujes, some- 

 times deeply cut, ai other tunes a little indented upon the edges, of a paie green co- 

 iou.', iikti adiantum album, an J having many furr.jws, appearing ra Hated. From the 

 axu of ihis braiicn rise two ruuiKl small green stalks, two mches long, towards the tops 

 of wuicii are several small bunche^ of capsu.es, at firsi green, attv;rvvardsfrrruj;ii}Ous : 

 the root is covered with blarlisn hair, iiaving several tilJnis. It grew on a rut^k b_) the 

 Isaoks of Wie Kig C.Bbie, iivune^ 



