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 LVII. ''Filix non ramosa major, surculis crebris, pinnalis longis, angustis. Cat. p'' 19. Tab. 50. Fig.1. & Tab. 51. ''An filix palustris mas non ramosa pinnulis obtasioribus planis ex insula Bermudensi. Plukenet. Phytogr. Tab.'' 243. Fig. 6? ''Almag. p.'' 151?

This rises to about two Foot high, having a greenish yellow middle Rib, or Stalk, to which at one third of an Inches distance are set the Twigs, sometimes opposite, at other times alternatively, being each about seven Inches long, and an Inch broad at the Base where broadest. The Pinnule are each half an Inch long, join'd to one another at their middle Rib, or original, and thence grow narrower to their ends, they are sharp, being of a yellowish green colour, and there is a defect between the ends of each of the Pinnulæ. of this there are several varieties, those most remarkable being in the narrowness and breadth, sharpness or bluntness, and crookedness or streightness of the Pinnulæ, two of which varieties are figured Tab. 50. Fig. 1. & Tab. 51. It grew by the inland woody and shady Rivers of this Island.

LVIII. Filix non ramosa major, surculis raris brevioribus, pinnalis crebris latis brevibus non aculeatis. ''Cat. p.'' 20. Tab. 48. Fig. 2. ''Filix Indica major alis longis rotundins crenatis binis macularum ordinibus ad oras notatis. Arana-panna. H. M. p.'' 12. Tab. 31. Bob. p. 3. ''hist. Ox. p.'' 575. ''quoad. descr.''

This was the same with the preceding, only the surculi were not so long, and the Pinnulæ were not aculeated, but blunt and roundish, almost like those of Asplenium.

It was brought from Jamaica to Dr. Sherard, and by him communicated to me.

LIX. Filix non ramosa major, surculis crebris, pinnalis brevioribus, angustis. ''Cat. p.'' 20. Tab. 50. Fig. 2.b

This is in every thing the fame with the former, fave one, only the Twigs are not so broad, being not over two thirds of an Inch broad, that is, the Pinnalæ are nor over one third of an Inch long, and not quite so narrow at bottom, so that there is less void space between them, and of this Kind there are several varieties as to length of surculi, &c. The Seed lies in round ferrugineous Spots on each side of the middle Rib running through each Pinnula.

I found it on the rocky Banks of Orange River, and Rio d'Oro, between sixteen Mile Walk and St. Maries.

This is not the ''Filix non ramosa Jamaicensis, pediculo albicante, alis marrubii aquatici fere divisuris, &c. Pluken.'' as appears by its Figure and Description compared with those of his, ''Phyt. Tab.'' 290. Fig 2.

LX Filix non ramosa minor, surculis crebris, pinnulis longis, latisque. ''Cat. p. 20 Tab.'' 50. Fig. 3.

This has a light brown greenish shining Stalk, rising to about nine Inches high, or sometimes a Foot and a half, to each side of which, at about one third of an Inches distance are set Twigs about an Inch and an half long, and near an Inch broad at Base where broadest, the Pinnulæ being joined to near their ends, and being of a dark green colour, much resembling the precedent, only the surculi are broader, or which is all one, the Pinnulæ longer. The Pinnulæ are also broader, so that whereas in that going before there is a defect or empty space between the ends of the Pinnulæ, here it is none or very small, and the Pinnulæ lie over one another. The Root is knobbed, and has many Fibrils of a cinereous colour, sending up three or four Stalks from it by which it is sufficiently distinguished from the Filix minor palustris.