NOT 
Nov. Holl. v. 1. 145.—Clafs and — Cryptogamia Fi- 
dices § we Annulate . Nat . Ord. Filice 
ff: Ch. Capfules in a marginal “i arg! continued 
or ee} Involucrum none; (ex the briftles, 
{cales, or woollinefs of the frond, Separating the cap- 
es. 
This genus is Etsy by the learned writer above men- 
tioned, out of fome fpecies hitherto fuppofe ed to belon 
either to Acroffichum, Pieris, or — rtz’s Cheilanthes, with 
ae they feverally agree in 
. N. Marante. oo 
1527. Swartz. Ful. 14. 
hum Marante; Linn. Sp. 
Lonchitis afpera Maranthe ; 
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covered beneath with neice! tawny f{cales. 
rather clofe. ts oblong, obtufe; the lowermoft di- 
rae and fomewhat lobed, at the bales uppermoft con- 
—Native of Italy, Switzerland, and the Levant, in 
the cleft of rocks. This isa pane fern, about a foot 
co overed beneath with long, pointed, 
olden brown. ‘The tufted an are 
ng tawny flender briftles. 
1.—Frond ral pinnate, linear- 
Branches 8 Op- 
covered with lon 
kfon, New South Wales 
The frond is much more linear than in 
the foregoing; its primary divifions more diftant. The 
colour of the /cales is a rather pale brown, without any of 
the golden tawny fo remarkable in the firft {pecies. 
.n. 2.— Frond doubly pinnate, of a 
lower ones cut. 
Mr. Brown in the tropical part of New Holland 
4. N. srichomanoides. (Pteris trichomanoides ; ocr nn, Sp 
Pl. 1632. Swartz. Fil. 102. chomanes argenteum, ad 
oras nigrum; Plum. 57- t. 75. Pet. Fil. n. 137. t. 
16, T. majus, emt finuatis f{ubtus niveis; Sloane Jam 
v. 1. 80. t 1.) Frond pi Leaflets 
numerous, fomewhat ovate, obtufe 
powdery and often hairy beneath. se Native 
Plumier oh it grows on all forts of foil, 
rocks and in woods. Wamerous 
nches high, gi from the tufted 
carcel inch wide, com- 
mottly ge, ftalked leaflets, 
broadifh-ovate, a little 
obtufe, with more or lefs of a roundifh fhallow 
ir bafe. Their margin is fringed with a denfe 
ed, or ftellate, brown hairs, within which, but 
_ Br. —* Frond p bade {mooth. 
Leaflets from three to fev ven, — on entire, flightly 
recurved at the margin.’’—Gathered by Sir Jofeph Banks, 
in the tropical part of New Holland. 
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NOT 
NOTHUS, »c;, a Latin term, properly fignifying 2 
s bir 
a ee or a perfon of {purious birth. 
ence it is applied figuratively, by phyficians, &c. to 
fuch ‘ifeates, as, case in re {pect ofa fimilitude of fymp- 
toms, &c. they the fame ation as fome others ; 
yet a are of a different origin, at. or the “ike, from the 
oe is fometimes alfo ufed for the back part of the 
cheft, or thorax 
NOTIOMETER. See HyGromMeETE 
NOTION, pees e Logic, an a6 or r reprefentation 
of any thing in che 
his term a the we | idea are often taken in the fame 
owledge, or notion, of my m 
acts about ideas, inafmuch as I know, or underftand what 
is meant by thofe words, What I know, that I have fome 
=} 
° 
a 
n of. 
However, pad bare idea and notion may be ufed con- 
vertibly. it conduces to clearnefs and propriety, 
sagt we diltinguath things Hie diffcrent by different names. 
Ifo to be remarked, that all relations including an ° 
el the ee. we cannot fo ry be faid to have an 
idea, but rather a notion of the relations or habitudes be- 
tween things; but, if in the modern way, the word idea is 
extended to fpirits, sitions, mh acts, this i is, — all, an 
affair of verbal concern.— eley, ae cip. Hum 
Knowl. fe&. 142. p. 160, ec. See 
M. Leibnitz is very accurate in the diftin@tion of notions, 
in the — Erud. Leipf. anno 1684. 
Norton, 4 clear, he defines to be fuch an one as fuffices 
us to reculled the obje& ; v. g: that a given nea is 
si Sade in the number of triangles 
, An obfcure, is that hich doth not fuffice to 
reece c ea sa Ve - Be is that of a plant, which 
upon feeing, you are whether or no it be the 
fame you had feen ceehac, and ‘phic 4 is called by this or 
that name 
Notion, Diftin®. See Dist 
Notion, 4 confufed, is aaa eeu you are not able to 
affign the very marks or characters whereby you recollect 
the object, though it > refolvabe into them. 
is the notion of red co 
Such, v. g. 
See ae SS 
DEQUA 
on, An inadequate, it bi ya =e “have only a con- 
fafed ace of viene s that enter a diftinG one. 
e confufe ons are admitted into mathematics; 
viz. fuch va Elion is of no great conf. quence to any 
demonttration 
hus, Euclid does not refolve the notion of equality, 
rhombu c. inafm 
montation it fhould b 
fuc etail: as v. g. that tae a to the (eae third 
r 
into the number of mathematical definitions, except 
ones, and thofe too as adequate as poffible, or as occafion 
requires 
The {choolmen diftinguifh notions into formal, and objec. 
thing according to what it is, or has in itfelf; as the know- 
ledge = haa guatenus fire; of a light body, guatenus 
light, & 
Notion, 
