84 ON THE JAMAICA FERNS OF SLOANE’S HERBARIUM. 
very drying. Bon.” In this and other cases Sloane records the reputed 
oe virtues of plants, apearéntly approving them in abstaining from im 
commen 
Polypodium —— Swartz. 
21. Lonchitis gga facie pinnulis variis, &c., Cat. p. 16; Hist. p. 76, tabs. | 
29 and 30, fig. 1, Herb. p. 53.—This was brought ho me by Jam ste Harlow. Sloane 
well describes the aia variation of form in this Sain and =? that he had 
* not seen in any Plant so great sporting o f Nat 
Nephrolepis exaltata Schott. , 
eaueeie altissima, pinnulis utrinque, &., Cat. p. 16; Hist. p. 77, tab. 
b. p. 52. Polypodium exaltatum Linn. ; ‘Aspidium Sw.—Also, like the 
a pte home by James Harlow. 
iisiieain simile Linn. 
. Lonchitis altissima, pinnulis raris, &c., Cat. p. 16; Hist. p. 77, tab. b. 32, 
Harb,'p . 51.—Sloane describes this as about ’5 tt. long, are a petiole 14 ft. 
long. "His specimen is 3 ft. long, with a petiole about 15 in 
Asplenium arboreum Willd 
Asplenium auritum Swartz. 
25. Lonchitis minor, de, Kina 5 16; Hist. P- 78, tab. 33, fig. Fe Herb. P. 56. 
lenium marinum Lin B.—Linneus quotes the above figu 
fortunately there i ie no rslakastiig the plant from which the fen " 
merely a small poorish eae of po cxcontasly. well-distingu 
exceedingly variable A. auri Linn. is based on ne o 
Jamaica plants as well, A. roan Tia ony A. seve Saar Linn. 
sometimes quoted the same figure or plant for different speci 
Asplenium auritum Sw. 
26. Lonchitis major, pinnis angustioribus, &c., Cat. p. 16; Hist. p. 78, t. 33 
fig. 2, Herb. p. 57. Asplenium hoa Linn. — Linnzus aa Sloane’s fig 
as above for his soe and Browne's Asplenium simplex nigrum, &c., ‘ N. Hist. 
- 94 tter, however, is a different species, for ete quotes 
n Linn. e re 
tab. 33, fig. 2, is i 
which it is well established. At p. 54 of Sloane’s plates there are Jamai 
cimens of A. fa i ett. 
coment. OF 
Pteris longifolia Linn. 
27. Lone. tis major, pinnis longis, &c., Cat. p. 16; Hist. p. 79, %.38 
p. 59. Pawo vittat ta Linn.—The Linnean names are founded on the ‘ange = 
smaller states of species, 
Polypodium incanum Swartz. 
Poinsdin ai minus, oe, Cat. p. 16; Hist. p. 79, Herb. p. 60. Acrostichum 
poten Linn. 4 on the side of a mountain near Mr. Ellitson’ 
Hiden. pectinatum Linn. and P, elasticum Rich. = (P. Phim 
ee Be .): 
29. Lonchitis minor, &e., Cat. p. 16; Hist. p.79, Herb. p. 61.—A plant of 
ae a four of the latter are ‘together on the herb. sheet 
onchitidi afinis arbor anomala, &e., Cat. p. 16, Hist. p. 80. Merb. p. 
is Xylopitla latifolia Linn, Sloane remarks under it:— ‘I think this a @ prop 
