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cannot diftinguifh the one from the other, without a firicl: examination, and that 

 even with a glafs, unlefs he obferves the branchings of it. 



The Bonana bird's neft is always made of the fibres of this weed, and generally 



found hanging by a few threads from the tops of the moft expanded branches of 

 the moft lofty trees, efpecially thofe that fpread over ponds or rivers. 



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TILLANDSIA. I. Parajitica parva pruinofa, fcapo tenui bifioro. 

 Renealmia foliis fubulatis fcabris, pedunculis unijioris. L. Sp. PI. 

 Vifcum Cariophylloides minus & pruinojum, &c. Slo. Cat. yy. &H. t. 121. 1. 



The fmall frofted Tillandjia, commonly called Old man's Beard. 



TILLANDSIA 2. Parafitica parva, foliis tenuiffimis ereBis, fpica breviori 



fmplici difticha. 

 Vifcum Cariophylloides minus foliorum imis viridibits, 5cc. Slo. Cat. jj. & 



H. t. 122. 



The fmall narrow-leafed Tillandjia. 



TILLANDSIA 3. Media parajitica, foliis oblongis obtujis, jloribus comofis 



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terminalibus. 

 Tillandfia, foliis limonii ligulatis integerrimis baft "centric ops. 



L. Sp.Pl. 



Vifcum Cariophylloides maximum, capitulis in fummitate conglobatis. Slo. H. 





t. 122. 



The Tillandjia^ with tufted flowers, 



TILLAND§IA 4. Paraftica major foliis attenuatis baji ventricofis, racemo 



laxo fpatiofo ajfurgenti, 

 Tillandfia culmo paniculato, L. Sp. PI. 



The loofe-headed Tillandjia, or Wild- Pine. 



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T I LLANDSI A 5, Parajitica major, foliis amplioribus attenuatis baji ventri- 



cojis ; fpicd ajfurgenti, comprejfd, brachiatd; foribus 

 fere fefjilibus. 

 Vifcum Catejb. v. ii. t. 89. 



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TILLANDSIA 6. Parajitica foliis majoribus cbtufis ; fpica ajfurgenti di- 



v/fa, fquamofa. 



The larger Tillandfia , with obtufe leaves. 



TILLANDSIA? 7. Parajitica maxima, foliis amplioribus cbtufis, ciliato- 



fubfpinojis, racemo ajfurgenti piramidato* 

 Tillandfia foliis fuperne dentatofpinofs, L. Sp. PI. 



The largefl Tillandjia^ or Wild-Pine, with a variegated flower-fpike. 



All thefe fpecies of the 'Tillandjia are frequent in Jamaica, and go among the 

 people there by the name of Wild-Pine : they grow upon, the trees, and by the 

 eafy bend, and broad hollowed bafe of the leaves, become fo many natural 

 refervoirs, which hold a fufficient quantity of the water that falls in the 

 rainy feafons, to fupply them with moifture for a confiderable time, in long conti- 

 nued droughts -, and in fandy defarts have been frequently ferviceable to both men 

 and beads. 



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PANCRATIUM i. Foliis comprejjis obtufis, fcapo nudo, fioribus umbellatis. 



Pancratium 





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