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The Fern -tree 



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This plant rifes by a confiderable fimple hard and lignous trunk, to the height of 



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like the other ferns and palms, furnished onty 



bs, which fall off gradually as it rifes, while the new (boots fpring up from the top 

 fembles the palm tribe both in thedform and ftrufture of its trunk alio, beki 



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very hard immediately under the bark,i;butloofe, .foft and fibrous in the middle, it 

 holds for many years, bears all the inclemency of the weather with eafe, and is 

 frequently ufed for ports in hog-flies and other inclofures, f where .the fmaller palms 





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) I could not hitherto obferve the feed-capfulae of the following plants 5 

 general habit, and firucture of the leaves feem to range them in this clafs, I mall 

 fert them here, until further obfervations determine their real claffes. 



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This plant feldom rifes above a foot and a half ; the lower branches are divided 

 o three or five oblong foliages, and thefe into oval fubferrated lobes. 



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43 . Kamojum, ramis & ramulis alatis^ foliis ovatis 

 llfJl ferratis, fuper.ioribus adnatis. 



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This plant feldom rifes above one or two feet ; and is eafily diflinguifhed by the 

 il fcrrated form of its foliage, and margined branches. 





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44. Ramofum, frondibus oblongo-lanceolatis profunde 



incifis, nervo, jubcanaliculato^ /obis appropin- 

 . quatis & fubcrtnatiS) injimis quandoque dijlinclis. 



By the general make of this plant it mutt rife to the height of three or four feet : 

 foliage is very particular, for the nerves of the lobes are very .diftincl:, the ribs 







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Of thofe capillary Plants whofe F r uEtific at ion s cover the whole Disi y 



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ACROSTICUM 1 . Acaule, folio obkngo integr& fit feme m'tido pe- 



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Lmgua-Cervina Angujlifolia, &c. Plum. t. 12 



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The Leaf-Acrofticum. 





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This plant is found in the cooler mountains of New Liguanee j. it grows upon 

 :ks, and rifes in tufts from a fpreading fibrous root ; but it feldom exceeds te 



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and is every where furrounded with a thin membraneous 







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