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by Mr. Davenport. In general leaf shape only it resembles somewhat N. rigida, but 
the lamina is subtripinnate, instead of bipinnate. In most other characters, and 
particularly in its puberulous, dull stramineous (not lustrous dark castaneous) stipes 
and rachis, it is widely different. The rhizome and rhizome scales of the two species 
are wholly unlike. NV. rosei appears to have no very near relatives, 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND CHANGES OF NAME. 
Adiantopsis rupicola Maxon, Contr. Nat. Herb, 10: 485. 1908. 
Two recent collections of this very distinct Cuban species may be reported, as follows: 
Bafios San Vicente, province of Pinar del Rio, September 12-16, 1910, Britton, 
Britton & Gager 7497; trail from Buenaventura to San Juan de Guacamalla, on rocky 
hillside, December 16, 1910, P. Wilson 9349. 
Cheilanthes aurea Baker in Hook. & Baker, Syn. Fil. ed. 2. 476. 1874. 
Tyre Locaity: Matagua Valley, Guatemala, Salvin & Godman. 
DistripuTion: Apparently known only from Guatemala. 
Innustration: Hook. Icon. Pl. pl. 1637. 
The original specimens have not been seen by the writer, but the following plant 
accords perfectly with the diagnosis and later plate: 
Along the Rio Carracal, near Quetzaltepeque, Guatemala, altitude 1,000 meters 
(rare), 10, 7, 1882, Lehmann 1689. This number seems to have been omitted by Hier- 
onymus from his report on this collection. 
The specimen at hand, received from Captain Smith, was determined by Christ as 
Cheilanthes microphylla Sw. 
Cheiroglossa palmata (L.) Presl. 
In addition to the illustrations for this species cited in the North American Flora! 
may be mentioned plate 4 of Hooker’s Icones Plantarum (1837), which shows a small 
plant said to have come from the island of Bourbon, off the East African coast. In 
America the plant ranges from southern Florida throughout the West Indies to Mexico 
and Brazil. Its unusual distribution, which is common to a few other species of 
pteridophytes, is discussed by Doctor Christ in his recent work, Die Geographie der 
Farne, 1910. 
Dryopteris germaniana (Fée) (©. Chr. 
Christensen, in his second paper on the ferns of the group of Dryopteris opposita,? 
has extended the range of D. germaniana to Cuba, the species having been known 
previously only from Guadeloupe. Agreeing exactly with this Cuban specimen 
( Mazon 4059) is a plant received recently from Porto Rico, collected at Barranquitas, 
July, 1911, by Brother Hioram (no. 270), 
Goniophlebium eatoni (Baker) Maxon. PLATE 33. 
Polypodium ghiesbreghtti D.C. Eaton, Proc. Amer. Acad. 8: 618. 1873, not Linden, 
1867, 
Polypodium eatoni Baker, in Hook. & Baker, Syn. Fil, ed. 2. 511. 1874. 
Gontophlebium pringlei Maxon, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus. 2°7: 953. pl. 48. 1904. 
An examination of the type specimens of P. ghiesbreghtii D. C. Eaton in the Eaton 
Herbarium, collected in Chiapas by Ghiesbreght (no. 273), shows them to be identical 
with G. pringlei, described several years ago upon specimens from the vicinity of 
Jalapa, Vera Cruz, Pringle 11855. 
In publishing G. pringlei the writer commented upon the peculiar character of one 
or more pairs of the basal pinnz, as follows: 
“Two additional sheets in the United States National Herbarium differ in having 
the second pair of pinne like the first—that is, free and cordate-clasping at the base 
116: 13. 1909, * Smiths. Misc. Coll. 52: 365-396. 1909, 
