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This plant rifes by a fimple undivided ftalk to the height of thirteen or eighteen 

 inches; the leaves are long and pretty narrow ; and the feed-capfulae difpofed in two 

 lines alone the iides of the main nerve on the under fide of the foliage. 







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Offuch as have their FruSiifications difpofed in fir eight and fimple 



Lines on the under Side of the Leaves* 



J^SPLENIUM i. Acaule, foliis ampliJJimis, margine inequali & knit 



ferrato, petiolis anguiaiis & marginatis. 



Afplenium Fronde jimphci lanceolatd fe 



Ling 



Cervina Longo lato ferratoque jolt 



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Plu, 



PI 



24. 



Phyllitis non Jinuata, foliorum limbis> &c. Slo. Cat. 14 



The large fimple Afplenium or Hart' s-tongue with 





ferrated 



margin 



This plant is found in all parts of 'Jamaica : and is generally obferved to grow in 



" "* - ... — -ous root, and moot commonly to the 



ght of two or three feet. It grows fometimes upon trees, fometimes upon the 



fts 



The 



fe from a thick fib 



ground 



ASPLENIUM 



Acauk minus > foliis oblongis, pet tolls glab 



The fimple Afplenium or HartVtongue with a fmooth 





finning Foot-ftalk 



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This plant feldom rifes above ten or twelve inches ; but grows from a fibrous root 

 like the former, which generally runs in the ground : the margin is even and the 

 ftalk fmooth. It is found in the road through May day- hi lis, and has not been noticed 

 before, or if it has, mull: have been confounded with other plants/ 



ASPLENIUM 3. Minimum fmplex foliolis fubrotundis quandoq 



Afplenium Frondibus pinnatis, pinnis cuni-formibus obtufis crenato-emargi 



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natts. 

 Pumila. &c. 



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Pk 



PJ 



f. 



5 



The fmall fimple Afplenium with roundifli leave 





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This little plant feldom rifes more than one or two inches above the root j the 

 ftalk is ilender and delicate 5 and the leaves roundifli, jagged and few : the feed-cap- 

 Jules are difpofed in a few fhort lines on the back of the leaves. It grows in the 

 fiilures of the rocks about Port Antonio, 









ASPLENIUM 4. Simplex minus reflect ens, Jolt is oblongis cr en at is & 



fubauritis, fummitate aphyllo radicanti. 



Afplenium Frondibus ccrdato-cumformibus indivi/is, apice fliformi ra~ 



dicante. L. Sp. pi. 

 Afplenium Minus, &c. Pk. t. 253. f. 4. 

 Lonchitis Afplenii folio, pinnulis variis y &c. Slo. Cat. 16. 5c Hi ft. t. 30. 



This plant is frequent in the mountains ofLiguanee : it feldom grows above ten 

 or twelve inches in length, and is always found, with the top bending towards the 



ground. 



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