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Hemionitis Aurea, birfuta. Plum* t. 151. 



The hairy fimple lobe-leaf 'd Hemionitis 



This little plant feldom rifes above five or fix inches from the ground. It is pretty 

 hairy every where, and grows chiefly in low moift places, but thrives bed in a rich 

 luxuriant fhady foyl. 



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Of fuch as have their FruSlifications difpofed in diJlinEi round Spots, 



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the under Side of the Foliage 



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HEN I firft difpofed thefe plant 

 Linnteus's method of claffing them 



in the following order, I had not feeri 



their 



pfulae (a) 

 gement of this 



when 



his remarks upon the difpofition of 



as I find the fituation of riiefe to be of lingular fervice in the 

 icate and numerous family, I (hall endeavour to mention it 



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I recollect, or can difcover the true pofition of the 



ftill follow my common method, viz. of beginning with the mofl fimple, and 

 ing on gradually to the mofl divided ipecies. 



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POLYPODIUM 1. Acaule foliis obhngis fimplicibus, capfulis ferialibas. 



Phyllitis Arboribus innofcentibus, &c. Slo. Cat. 



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The fimple Polypodium without a trunk. 



This plant is very common in the woods of Jamaica, and grows like the firft fpe- 

 cies of the Afplenium both in fize and appearance : the leaves are thin and delicate, 

 feldom under two and a half or three inches in breadth, and eighteen or twenty in 

 length. 



POLYPODIUM 2. Acaule minus , capfulis duplici ferie nervis interject is. 



The fmaller Polypodium with two feries of capfulae between 



the radiating nerves. 



This plant is commonly confounded with the foregoing, though it is very diftincT: 

 both in the areolated texture of its leaves, as well as the difpofition of its capfulae. 

 It rifes generally to the height of fixteen or eighteen inches. 



POLYPODIUM 3. Acaule ereftum minus, margine crenato-lobatd, apice 



lanceolato porretlo. 



The fmall fimple Polypodium with crenated leaves. 



This plant grows, by a fmall fibrous root, to the trunks of decaying trees, and is 

 commonly found in the moil fblitary woods : it confiils of fimple leaves, which fel- 

 dom rife above three or four inches from the root ; thefe are obtufely crenated at the 

 margin's in the lower partj but the top ftretch into plain lancet-like fimple lobes. 



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difpofed in two lines, along the fides or nerves of either 



lhall call Lineaks ; but fuch as run in a lineal direction 



call Sparf* 



fhali call Striaks y and* thefe that are difppfqd in no peculiar 



rib, and lie parallel 



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