Faksimile 10v
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| 10v– 15. To answer this query it is necessary to go
a little into the history of the two plants mention’d
in it.

1st Asplenium monanthemum. Linn.
Linneus by whom the species was established had his
plant from Prom. b. spei and it is figur’d in Smith 1789–1791, Fasciculus III, 73.

 [Schließen] Smith’s
icones ined. 73.. This plant I have gather’d at the
Cape of Good Hope. the additional loci natales
of „Insulae Philipp. Marian. Peru & Nova Hispania“
in  Swartz 1806, 80.

 [Schließen]Swadtz’s syn. &  Linné/Willdenow/Link 1797–1830, 322–323.

 [Schließen]Willd. sp. are first given by
Cavanilles in his demonst. . 1801 p. 258. on the authority
of Nee’s Herbarium and probably adopted by these
authors without consideration.

In Herb. Banks. there is no american species
approaching to monanthemum. there is one however
from the Sandwich Islands nearly related to it which
may very likely be the plant of the Phillippine & Mariane
Islands. The evidence of either this or of true monan-
themum being american does not appear to me
satisfactory.

2d Asplenium [sic] punctulatum Willd. sp. 5 p. 220.
is first established by  Swartz 1806, 46; 245.

 [Schließen]Swadtz in syn. fil. probably
from the Sierra Leone plant which it appears he had
from Afzelius. Though the specific name be taken
from Plumier:  Swartz 1806, 245.

 [Schließen]l. c.[.] I am inclin’d to think Swadtz
has no west india specimen of his punctulatum & if so
its being american therefore will depend on the correct-
ness of his reference. in my opinion a very slender
foundation for identity of species in that tribe or