40 ON THE JAMAICA FERNS OF SLOANE’S HERBARIUM. 
= fructuosum Spreng. 
Pt is a perfect fr f this, which is new to Jamaica, but common in 
uiana and Brazil, on rh ee with the preceding species. 
Cheilanthes serene et se R. Br. 
- 82, Adiantum igru 
um t. p. 22; Hist. p. 95, Herb. 
iatum Linn.—“ Wood ts in ‘the extn side of the ae by 
the Ola Town of Sevilla” 
Cyathea elegans pager 
. Filix arborea ramosa, ot Cat. p 2 22; Hist. p. 95, tab. 56, Herb. pp. 133 
at 134. Polypedtiont specio i oane descr ben this as having @ ; 
“ Trunce twenty feet high, as es as ones Lee, pad the manner of Palm-Trees), e 
undivided, and covered with the remaining ends of the Foot-Stalks of the Leaves 
fallen off, which are dark brown, as mel “8 ones Finger, two or : he inches 
long, thick-set with short and sharp prickles....... From these Trees 
growing on the Mountains of iepanicda, the ——* argued the “fertility 
of that Soil, making Ferns grow to such a vast bigness, which i 
were so taocudavabie, not Recunmnee 2 that the Ferns in Europe a aoa here, 
were quite different Kinds one from the other.” oe gure is quoted under : 
Alsophila nitens J. Sm, in Gr. ‘ Fl. Brit LW. Ind.’ | 
: 
: 
Davallia — sere 
84, Adiantum nigrum t. p. 22; Hist. p. 96, tab. 57, 
figs. 1 and 2, Herb. p. 135. plata of b Mju Diabolo, very plantifalic: gas this, 
plis. p. 137, is Sivlnded portions of frond of Dicksonia cicutaria Swar 
Dicksonia rubiginosa KIf. 
diantum nigrum ramosum cmoowren &e., Cat no. 22; Hist. p. 96, tab. 57, 
- Maries, in the ‘North side. This or species 87 were confused by Sloane. 
On tab. 57 there are three figures; 1 and 2 are cited for species 84. In the text 
under 85 he refers to tab. 57, fig. 3, as above quoted, but the pss there figured 
e of 85 must have been dro - for want of 
is quoted by Grisebach, ‘Fl. Brit. W. Ind.’ : 691, a Ausaben gece pe Mett., 
and Kun. eesti Soe a ig ae taraaee erb. p. 137, is given with this, but 
is his species : 
room on the table, and the requisite change not made in the te The figure 
Brit 
it is D. : 
P 
emake — ag 
At presen this only grows on the trunks ha Opether elegans, which, however, a 
may have asealet: except where it ascends beyond the range of that — 
inc ote hirtellum Swartz. : 
Herb. p. 139 is given with the p 
; 
= 
es — th ose Baker. a 
m, &e., Cat. p.22; Hist.p.97,tab.5% 
fig. “a i Herbs pp. sp. 142, 143 143, Td. Pe Polyscsiun divergens Sw. —Mount Diabolo. 
There Sra to the plate See species 85. 
[88 oe , Hist. p. 07, pits. io 145; and 89, Cat. p. 23, Hist. p.9% 
~~ 54, ae 2, gen p. 146, ar as the preceding, the last being ‘merely < 
et ba REY 
Cheilanthes Pt te Swartz. 
. Adiantum nigrum ra , Cat. p. 23; Hist. p. 98, tab. 13, 
ey “5 Herb. p. 147. Rocks talow the tent of Be Yegn as te Veen 
