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EARLY EUROPEAN RESEARCHES 
and in Petiver’s writings. But as the descriptions there 
are often long and detailed, I cannot venture to reproduce 
the whole and shall often confine myself to quoting only the 
short diagnoses, which generally precede the descriptions, 
referring the reader to the original works and the drawings. 
The latter of course will he more serviceable to identify the 
plants in question, than the descriptions given. 
MtJSEI PETIVERfANI CENTURIAE DECEM RARIORA NATURAE CON^NENS 
London 1692b-*1703. 2 tab. 
This is an enumeration of exotic plants, from Asia, the Cape 
of Gr. H. and America. I extract the following notes on 
Chinese plants found there. These Chinese specimens were 
gathered, as Petiver states, chiefly by Cunningham , a few of 
them also by ICeir and \Barhlay, surgeons, and Sam. Brown. 
The latter visited Chusan before Cunningham. 
The first century mentions three Chinese Ferns. 
Adiantum nigrum chinense, tenuiter di visum, pinnulis- 
minimis obtusis bifidis. Pluk. Aim. 29. tab. 4, 1. Raii. h. pi. 
1854. Chinese black Maidenhair with blunt forked leaves. 
Eamoy in China. 
Adiantura tenuifolium. Lamarck Enc. Bot. I. 44. Gathered by Son-, 
tier at in India. 
Adiantum nigrum lannginosum Chinense *. Pluk. Aim. 30. 
tab 4, 2.— Dryopteris lanuginosa chinensis Raii. h. pi. 1854. 
Hoary black Chinese Maidenhair JlUmoy in Chin. 
Film j- pyrarnidalis chinensis. Filix e China mollis, auricula 
ad pinnulae basim superne producta, siimrno folio longius 
mucronato. Pluk. Aim. 30. fig 2.—Fil. spec, e China delata 
nobis. Raii. h. pi. 1853. Our China Steeple Fern. 
352. Argentina Emuyaca, foliis ramosis, altius incisis. From 
Emuy, a Chinese island. 
400 Fagopyrum chinense Bistortae folio. 
402. Filix Emuyaca pinnis proliferis mire ornatis. 
403. Filix Emuyaca pinnis singulis integris et divisis, mar- 
ginibus seminiferis. 
425. Kadah Emuyaca, Tuberariae angustiore folio. , 
498. Uni lei Chinensibus. Frutex Cynosbaty fructu alato 
tinctorio, barbulis Iongioribus coronatis.—The fruit supplies a 
famed ingredient used by the Chinese for dying scarlet. 
* Adiantum Chinense perelegans ramosnm, folio flabelliformi cum 
rubedine p,erfuso. Pluk. Aim. ii. tab 4, 3. is diantunj, flabellatum L. 
Linneus describes yet another Chinese species : A. chusanum, which has 
been referred t,o Davailia chinensis Sw. by Sprengel. 
