DAVALLIA. 
which extends rather beyond their points. Mentioned by ceding; and indeed it is difficult to fay which he at 
Swartz.as a native of the Eaft Indies. We have met with by his Adiantum aculeatum, neither of them being in his 
nothing that precifely anfwers to his defcription, though Ftecti As the former is the moft common oa beft 
r. Menzies found in Otaheite a ee a comes very known, we follow Dr. Swartz in confidering it as the ori- 
near it. 15. D. pyxidata ecion. 278. Frond ginal fpecies. The prefent plant is faid to creep to 2 great 
thrice compound. Tes falke d, Gace rhom bo id, extent, not only along the ground, but over the trunks of 
pinnatifid, or ae ; their — lobes unequal fe eir margins trees, its fronds being very long, and fo covered with {pines 
notched. Dots marginal, each fur bv a blunt that. Plumier obferves it looks more hke a bramble than a 
tooth A baie of -the ifle of Nigcon aa . New South fern. There {pines are not ont y valtiy more numerous, and 
“Wales, near Port Jeckfon. Roof creeping, long, and very larger, than thofe of the foregoing, but ftraight, not aa 
igh, faethe. Froud firm ed, and the principal ftalks at Icalt are lefs zig-zag. J 
and {mooth, fix to twelve inches long, and half as broad at Jers abrupt, not rounded at their extremities 5 an nat a 
the wide part. The firft, oe and fometimes third at the edge, not flat. Dots {mall, covered, by the reflexed 
clining to rhomboid, pinnatifid or a crenate, their lower tichum anes Linn, Sp. Pi..1530. Trichomanes acu- 
Jobes unequal in fize. ots folitary in each notch, reach- leatum; Sw rod. 137. Davallia aculeata; Hedw. Fil. 
ing to its edge, but furmounted by its blunt incurved fale. 4., ee to Swartz.) Frond thrice compound. 
oth. Cover reddifh, fomewhat urn-thaped and turgid; ene ts wedge-fhaped, deeply cut into linear fegments. 
I w. 
its margin rounded and wa a = Ca c- Dots folitary. Prickles of the falks = oked cA 
cion. 279 rond twice or thrice compound, fhining, ta- and the younger Hedwig have mo i] determined the 
per-pointed. lLeafiers flaiked. Frudtifications oblong. Cav enus of this fern, which was cere mifplaced in Acrof- 
Difcovered by Louis Née at the Philippine iflands. Cavan- iichum, and which is clofely related to the two laft fpecies. 
illes, from whom alone we have any knowledge of this fpe- Linneus very ne s the fame fynonym of Sloane 
cies, defcribes it as much larger than the lait, fhining, as for thi is Adiantum beers oth are natives of Ja- 
-well as {mooth, on the upper furface, doubly and alternate- maica. The name fumarioides, though a jumble of Latin 
dy pinnate. The primary divifions are eight inches long, two and Greek tco ufual among botanilts, admirably exprefles 
wide, with a terminal waved point, an inch and half long, the habit of this delicate fern, whofe foliage sae the idea 
Scarcely a line broad. The fubdivifions are from one and a_ of our Fumaria abe The deflexed hooks of the ttalks 
half to four inches in pies lanceolate, pinnatifid; wedge- ee it from the laft, and more refemble °D. aculeata, 
fhaped at the bafe. About the margin of each fegmeat are but the rae W, ‘Tinear fegments of the leaflets, with one 
three or four dots of ray Sar larger than in the pre- dot of { effels only near the point of each, make it evi- 
ceding {pecies. 17. » s. Sw. Fi. 133. (DV. die dently a fafficiently diftin® from both. 22. D. canarien- 
Hedw. Fil. fal i i 
dyma ; Hedw. Fil. fale. 4. Trichomanes cuneiforme. Forft. fis. Sm. Traéts, 246. (Trichomanes canarienfe; Linn. 
rad. 85 ; according to ee Frond thrice compound. Sp. Pl. 1562. Jacq. Ic. Rar. v. 1. 2 Polypodium lu- 
oo. Polyp 
Segments wedge-fhaped, fomewhat ovate, cut. Dots in- fitanicum; Linn. Sp. Pl. 1556.) Frond thrice compound, 
pairs. Sw. Found in the South-Sea:flands. 318.D. /e- with thtee principal branches. Ultimate fegments lanceolate. 
oe Frond thrice compound, all over hairy. Leaflets al- Dots folitary. A native of Portugal, the Canary iflands, 
nate, decurrent, oblong, finuated. Dots peek in ier and the country about Algiers, where, as we are informed 
iti brittly. Sm. MSS. Found by Mr. A. Men by M. Durand, it grows on the cork tree. It is frequent 
the Sandwich iflands. The frond is perhaps two or ee in our green-houfes, being cultivated ase little nae ina 
feet hizh, triply winged in an alternate order; the /eaffets pot, and almoft always covered wi ificat The 
elpecially are very regularly alternate, decurrent, oblong, appearance of the thick rough bare ro ay en it the 
aaa finuated fo as to be almoft a eer The fa/ks name of hare’e-foot fern, -The evident abfurdity of cone 
and whole frond are clothed with , briftly, or fhaggy, founding this with the genus Trichomanes, both on account 
pellucid, jointed hairs. Dots folitar 7 ‘near each finus of of its habit and cha racter, firft led the writer of this arti- 
the es die round, brown, their covers consrsiee or clothed cle to sonfider the genera of this tribe, and to attempt a 
with numerous hairs like thofe of the frond. 19. D. acu- new method of diftinguifhing them, by the cover of their 
ene ce Fil. 134. (Adiantum seas Linn. Sp. Pl. frutification, which has fince been’ univerfally adopted and 
1559. Filix ra amofa major, caule {pinofo, foliis feu pinnulis carried by various writers to great perfection. The fronds 
rotund profundé laciniatis, re cerefolii foliis; Sloane Jam. of this f{pecies are about t high, almoft as broad as 
1. OQ. t. 63. rond thrice compound. Leaflets wedge- long, ae divided into three principal branches, and thofe 
fhaped, lobe d, obtufe, flat. Stalks zig-zag, with hooked twice or thrice pinnate; the ultimate fegments are lanceolate, 
prickles. Obferved by Sloane, Swartz, and others, in Ja- baewt elliptical, entire, fuch as bear fruit dilated and 
maica and Filpaniols, Fronds three or four feet high, triply cloven. Dogs folitary, da orange-coloured. Cover cup- 
winged, in an alternate order. Svalks flender, zig 2a round, fhaped, more or lefs crenate. 23. D. retufa. Cav. Leccion. 
fhining, befet with little, {cattered, hooked prickles. Leaf- 278.. Sw. Fil. 133. Frond thrice compound, broadeft at 
Zets {mooth, alternate, divaricated, wedge-fhaped, cut into the bafe. Branches tapering. Leaflets alternate, wedge- 
two or three obtufe, wedge-fhaped lobes, at the extremity fhaped, in two or three fegments, abrupt. Dots in pairs or 
of each of which are lodged commonly two round dots of ae po niiles cccenes this fpecies from the ifland of 
fruBiseation, Gina imbedded between the coats of the ave a fpecimen gathered by Mr. Menzies in 
an f, each with its own {mall cover diflin@ from thofe coats. the sSandwich iflands, which agrees fo aay with his de- 
’D, du maf ‘Sw. Fil. 135. (Adiantum frutefcens, {pi- {cription that we have no doubt of its being the soar The 
ate et repens; Plum. Fil. 77. t. ot Fronds thrice frend is above three feet high, fmooth in every part, its ge~ 
compound, Leaflets wedge-fhaped, lobed, abrupt; their nerafoutline oblong, pointed, broadeft at the bofe, ‘the firtt 
extremities reflexed. Prickles cif - be ftraight. Plu- pair of pinne being the longeft. Stalk and branches round 5 
mier, and long fince his time Thierry, have gathered this the latter ob{curely bordered or winged. <All the pinna and 
fern in Hifpaniola, Linnzus na it with the pre- /eaflets are alternate; the latter wedge-fhaped, narrow, en- 
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