HEMIONITIS. 
clothed with peculiarly long and denfe down, of a golden The three r lobes of this are deep} nat rtl 
brown colour. Plumier reprefents it as if creeping, woe 6 iclabatifd, theis fe ee and pica Mpmcnar ary Leary Z 
ane 6 fach downy fibres. Fronds ihre a oot high, bn en neal dila se he two lowell and finalleft, which 
| y ae are pendulots, or parallel to the 
on, fmooth und naked on beth fides, their bafe ually tale sianetil alfo, though flightly. Eo lobe has a 
middle, 
eoentey Se but peancely Rals. ee : drape “ag se Ms k-purplith thining rib, vanithing 
ines 0 cation about two on eac of the rib, longi- 
tudinal, a mes naked, zigzag, meeting frequently os “* gers Capen 
interbranching, as if crofling aie other, but by no means Pe he . pedata. a Pith ti 20 and 209. t. 3. f, 3, 
in that regular ferpentine or chain-like manner, drawn by rond pedate 4 lea frig acut si“ to 
Flere, and, at leaft, not made // wonderful by his Dr. Swarts by the wi dr "abe Cavanilles, but with- 
copiers. out mention m3 its native sot bak Ol a ih, 
a H. reticwlaia. Forlt, Prodr. 79. Swartz. Syn, Fil. polithed and fmooth. Frend » Of three leaflets; the 
Sprengel. t. 3. f. 19, as above. (H. plantaginea; cls oe fmall, bluatly and obfeurcly ubree- 
Cavan, Leccion. 261. Schkuhr, Cr. t. 6; awcording lobed ones eac ton fe thant bedeos tite, very 
to Swartz.)—Frond undivided, tclaneolte, fone unequally two-lobed, the lobes pointed 
c Pig fome- doutly a edad 
what falcate, riblefs, tapering at fearcely flalked. deeply pinnatifid, with tharpith fomewhat faleate lgment 
Ti News of the Society ‘pec fom = of the Phili x ‘pape Lines of capfules numerous, ttriaght, parallel, fome of thers 
eazies gave us a ‘ is omous, 
diftinguithe Fane es he ici by its spec a and falcate . H. rufa, Swartr. 8 e.? Fil. 20 and 210. (Acrof- 
which is en and ‘uly oe mos but ‘ut tpi tichiim am; Linn, Sp. 525. Filix minor, ruff 
by its may numerous lines pest re- raps wate obdudta, &e.; Sloane Jan. ds By. t. as. 
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Frond ttn: Salen, itn lanes Feates 7 - minate —Communicated the by | 
tive of wet rocks in the ifland of “« Frand fix or Geo. Leovard Staunton bart, in 1793. It is evidently akin 
inches long, and one broad, entire and {mooth, with ee oly car Pen am | be deemed a variety, 
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Phyt. t. 291 ay riod palmate, tniey, penagonal; ebek All are of s fine light pr.” Lines ep 
the lobes undivided, wavy and crenate-—Native of the W numerous, but mach lefe » and much more re- 
Indies. Root of many long, branching, hairy fibres. pentelly rtod, Tie B 5 seek aguas fire, of which we 
ualis feversl, from three to Seve inches high, yicing sonies So.ssonent, Ton anity bi the Apieies 
brown, hairy. Fronds the thape of a pentagon, 14 mentofam, Lamarck. Diét. +. 2. 308, found in Brafil by 
f more in diameter, palmate, of five lobes, the Commerfon and Dombey, which Swartz quotes for the 
taiddle one fh, two a, all wavy or mee agrees with 
Stemate, with a brown rib to cach, and that 
trully, or rather hairs. Thefe partly conceal the 10. H, acroflichsides. Swartz, n. 7.---" Fronds pianste, 
pata 5 ag ‘ led and mofl ly diftieA ; lealicts leaflets broad-lanccolate, ee > ‘art eset he A ee 
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