72 The Natural History of Jamaica.
It grew in a thick, very high, and shady Wood, ac the bottom of Mount Diablo, beyond the Maggoty Savanna.
It differs from Mr. Banister's Phyllitis saxatilis Virginiana per summitates foliorum prolifera. Which is sinuated at Base, and has a Foot-Stalk.
IV. Phyllitis arboribus innascens, folio non sinuato tenuiori rotundis pulverulentis maculis aversa parte punctato. Cat. p.14, Lingua cervina longis angustis & undulatis foliis. Tournef. Inst. p. 545.
This has a long knobbed Root, having fastened to it several Scales, or Remains of Leaves dropt of, and a great many reddish brown Fibers, interwoven one within another, having a three Inches long green Foot-Stalk. The Leaf is nine Inches long, two broad in the middle, where broadest, not falcated or sinuated at beginning like European Harts-Tongue, but very narrow, and ending in a sharp, or sometimes blunt point, being very green, thin, and shining, and having on its backside several round ferrugineous spots in which lie the Seeds.
It grows mostly on the Truncs of great, chiefly old, Trees, as Misseltoe, and is to be found on such Trees in the Path going to sixteen Mile Walk, and in shady places of the Hills in Liguanee by Hope River. Sometimes when old Trees fall down, this will then grow on the Ground.
V. Phyllitis non sinuata foliorum limbis leviter serratis. Cat. p. 14.
This, which seemed to be a small starv'd Plant, had a Root made up of many brown Fibres, sending up some eight or nine Leaves without any Foot-Stalks, being about three Inches long, three quarters of an Inch broad, near the further end where broadest, of a yellowish green colour, and smooth dentated about the Edges, being narrow at beginning, they increase to near the end, and then decrease to a blunt point.
It grows in the great shady Woods, in the inland parts of the Island.
VI. Hemionitis peregrina Clus rar. plant. hist. lib. 6. p. 214. Cat. p. 14.
I had this given me by Dr. William Sherard, who had it of one. Who gathered it in Jamaica, or Madera.
VII. Filix Hemionitis dicta Maderensis, hederae arboreae aliquatenus aemula, sea foliorum basi auriculis binis utrinque donato. Pluken. Alm. p. 155. Phyt. Tab. 287. Fig.4. Hemionitis Jamaicensis hederaceo folio, lineis seminiferis tenuissimis indorso notato. Bob. hist. Ox. part. 3. p. 560. An Hemionitis Lusitanica elegantior Tournef. el. Bot. p. 436? Inst. p. 546?
This was brought to me with the former, and was gathered by James Harlow in Madera, if I rightly rightly remember. I question much whether this be really differing from the former.
Though Dr. Plukenet tacitly confesses in his Mantissa, p. 82. that he had made two of this Plant in his Almag. p.155. yet any body who compares his Figure of this Plant, Tab. 287. Fig. 4. and mine of the Hemionitis peregrina foliorum segmentis sinuatis, etc. Tab. 26. Fig. 2. figured and described hereafter, will find them vastly differing.
VIII. Hemionitis folio hirsuto & magis dissecto seu ranunculi folio. Cat. p. 14. Filix hemionitis dicta sanicule foliis villosa. Plukenet. Alm. p. 155. Phyt. Tab. 291. Fig.4.
This had a great many fibrous, and thready black Roots, sending up several smaller, and two six Inches long shining black cornered Stalks, being covered over with a Ferrugineous Hair or Moss, the Leaf stands at top, being divided into three parts or Segments, very deeply cut in, even almost to the
