DAV 
firiated, tapering down into a flattifh 
ery abrupt, deeply fplit into two 
th, often with a minut 
tire at the: fides, 
ftalk ; their paisley 
un 
mo 
24. D. microcarpa. Frond thrice compound, lanceolate. 
Leaflets nee wedge-fhaped, in two or sala fomewhat 
elliptical fegments, abrupt. Dots in_ pairs, r fclitary, 
inute. etl us by the late Mr, Chritt. Smith from 
Amboyna. 7 whole frond is rather {maller than the laft, 
and lanceolate, the piune about the middie part being the 
longeft ; thefe, as well as the lower ones, are early oppofite ; 
but this may be a variable circumftance. 
n 
any f{pecies defcribed by Swartz or Cavanilles, though it is 
neaicuendily allied to fome of the following. 25. 
chinenfis. Sm. oie 247. Sw, Fil. 133. (D. ferruginea ; 
Cav. Leccion, 2772 Adiantum a — 
Phe A. tenuifolium. La k Encycl. v 
4 
rum chinenfe, tenuitér siti, pina minimis ob- 
tufis plerumque bifidis; Pluk. Phyt. t wi. Tricho- 
manes chinenfe; Linn. Sp. Pl. 1562. Ot. Tt: 242. t. 6?) 
Frond thrice compound, wey iam ets Gien 
wedge-fhaped, in two or three 
- in pairs, or folitary, on 1s 
Root tufted with a few branched fomewhat hairy fibres. 
Stall imooth, channelled i in front with obtufe edge 
ebout a hy in eg and colour like D. canarienjfis, 
but ae ke as in the laft fpecies, alternately thrice-pin- 
ate. Leaflets wedge- oe cloven, or three- cleft, rather 
dilated than contraéted at the extremity, which is externally 
Dots folitary, or m_ pai 
pale, wavy, cup-fhaped. 
original ipecimen which Liareus geek to have deferibed 
he figure of Ofbeck reprefents the ee 
too much dilated and oueded: aod yet it is difficult 
pofe his plant different from that of Linnens, ae: 1 - 
him for the fpe n he defcribed, which is intermediate in 
the form of its leaflets between the plates of Ofbecks and 
. Cavanilles’s delcaphon of his Davaliia ferruginea 
. well accords with our plant, that we cannot belicve them 
o be different, and he himfelf prefumed eicher that or his 
an mutt be the Linnean 77 nae chinenfe. 
sea three fpecies of Dr. Swartz toone. 26. D. gilberofa. 
Sw. Fil. 134. (D. eras ; eee 
‘Trichomanes gibberofum ; Fort. Prod. 8s.) Frond thrice 
compound, glaucous hencath. Segments of the leaflets 
linear, entire, gibbous, obtufe, bearing fructification at their 
inner margin. A native of the SoutheSea iflands, known 
to us only by the fhort characters given by Forlter and 
h 
wartz. - fhould have fuppofed it a Darea but for the 
authori latter. 27. D. epiphylla. Sw. Fil. 1 
Se sac are epiphyllum ; Forft. Prod. 85.) | Frond thrice 
compound, taper-pointed. 
eee ae iflands, whic jes 
om Swartz and For he 
fic ations as feated on ne upper fi fide of the fr 
contrary to all example, and, from the . sig? Swartz’s 
oy a miftake. . Cav. Lec- 
278. Sw. Fil. 134. Frond ‘thrice casual: glau- 
cous. Leaflets linear, pinnatifid, acute, alternate. Dots 
folitary, globofe. Gathered by Louis Née, in that part of 
the Andes called the Cordillera del Planchone Cavanilles, 
Dots below the points of the fegme native of th 
we have a , like laft, 
latter defcribes the fructi+ 
r 
eaflets deeply ferrated and cut.. 
of 
DAU 
from whom alone we have.any knowledge of this fpecies, 
deferibes it as follows.- “ The plant, at firft fight, appears’ 
hike the Trichomanes tamarifeiforme, defcribed aa pgured | 
Jacquin, in the third volume of his ColleGtanea, 285. t. 
t is not very different from it. Our plant, cat 
including the fa/k, which is {mooth, and marked with a lon- 
gitudinal groove, is more than a foot high, by four inches in 
It is all over of a pale hue, and thrice pinnate, 
n an alternate or The /eaffets are linear, pinnatifid, 
_ one to three lines es with taper points. Tach 
m bears, very the edge, a 3 oltary ee dot of 
fradtifeaion like the port tof a . clavata. 
Traéts, 247. (Adiantum tung Linn. Sp. Pl. 
ae, A. minus, foliis in fummitate retufis; Plum, Fil. 
45. t. rot. f.d.) Frond upright, a lternately thrice com= 
ound. Leaflets linear, club-fhaped, ribbed. Dots eat 
terminal, broader than the barren part of the lea A 
native of the Weft Indies. mus about a feot high ‘with 
y seth ae son Linnezvs, at one t 
unded this with a very different fern, his Trichomanes. 
cpllace Plum. Fil. t. 99. f. D, but it — ys al 
at he has any where defcribed it as fuch. 2 trtfo- 
liata Sw. Fil. 133. (Adiantum trifoliatum ; Pion Sp. Pl. 
155 A. triphyllum et retufaum; Plum. Fil. 81. te 99. 
.B.) Frond pendulous, zig-zag, ‘alternately twice coms 
Leaflets ternate, marten oe Dots ies 
i lumi jons this as growing in t 
n what t pati ar and of the We t 
Swartz mentions Re San 
romu 
yet the plant not occur in fi 
fume, therefore, he adopted it from Plumier; and ihe he 
latter only has feen it. He defcribes it as of-a moft beau- 
Stalks. 
ie green, with sel flender, black, creeping soots. 
» flen anched, zig-zag. Leaflets ternate from 
cach ‘Beane of ie branches, four lines long, of a very 
narrow wedge-like form, blunt, the extremity ‘* bent back. 
{o as to cover a littlé colleGtion of fine duit.’ Now, if this 
defcription be corre&, and itis all we have to guide us, the 
plant is an Adiantum (fee ApianruM, fp. 21.) ; and yet 
Dr. Swartz fays, “ it appears rather to belong to Davallia: 
than to dian’ ura, > an obfervation to a we fhould pay- 
ie higheft deference, and fuppofe P.umier to be vai 
if Dr. Swartz had feen this fpecies him peas as mar 
We 
raveliing botanilts, and to preferve, as 
m le; ie knowledge of fo pretty and curious: 
a vegetable produétion 
Dr. Swartz fulpetis that Trichomanes capiliaceum of Line- 
us, Plum, Fil. t. - 99 f. D, allo Adiantum trilobum. Linn. 
ibi nd f, A. tenuité: divifu um, may all be 
DB , but we ‘have not materials either to confirm or te- 
refute ‘his opinion, 
A in uae Geography, a town of Afia, in 
Mefopotamia, feate d on a plain at fome diltance N.E. from 
the river Billicha. 
ARA, the name of a hill of Afia Minor, towards. 
mount Taurus. Tacitis 
DAUBA, in Geography, a town of Bohemia, in the 
8 " circle. 
