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stalks one or several strange hand-like fronds, sometimes ten inches 
in spread, and with fingers nearly as long. The spikes are twice as 
large as those of O. vulgatum, and grow on the margin of both 
frond and stalk near their point of junction. 
This very rare and curious Fern was first discovered by Charles 
Plumier growing on trees along the streamlet “Le Fond de Baudin” 
near Léoganein San Domingo, a century and three quarters ago, and 
was not met with a second time in his three voyages to the American 
Islands. It seems to have been next found in 1830 in the Mauritius, by 
Mons. Lepervanche Meyrien, and sent to Sir. W. J. Hooker, who fig- 
ured it in Icones Plantarum (Vol. I, tab. [V.). Soon afterwards Mr. 
Tweedie found it in Southern Brazil, “growing in the axils of the leaves 
of a species of Palm.” Later it was gathered at Chinantla, Mexico, 
by Galeotti; in Peru, by Poeppig—growing on trees in both places ; 
on dead trunks at Tovar, Venezuela, by Moritz; and again, in 
Brazil, by Sellow; at Monte Verde and Rangel, in Cuba, by Charles 
Wright in 1858-65 ; and in 1875 by the distinguished botanist of 
Florida, Dr. A. W. Chapman, “growing in the axils of the old 
leaves of the Palmetto in company with. Polypodium aureum, only 
on one tree in deep shades, on the banks of the Caloosahatchee 
river in South Florida.” Dr. Chapman’s specimen’s are not large, 
being about six inches high. They show some entire fronds, and 
others 3—4-lobed, and have from one to three spikes. This discov- 
ery in Florida of a most rare, and peculiarly tropical Fern, is 
another, and very interesting illustration of the relation of the Flora 
of Southern Florida to that of the Antilles. D. C. Eaton. 
New Haven, January 3d, 1876. 
§ 74. Cyperus Wolfii, n. sp—Culmo triangulari, glabro, basi 
foliato ; umbella simplici, subpente-radiata; radiis valde inequali- 
bus, monocephalis; capitulis rotundis, simplicibus, polystachyis ; 
involucro subpertephyllo, foliis 2 elongato, vix culmo brevioribus ; 
spicis capitato-congestis, oblongis, 4-5 floris, squamis imbricatis, 
obtusis, submucronatis, 11 nerviis, carina viridi ; racheola late hya- 
lino-alata; filamenta 3, deciduis; stylo trifido; achenio triangulari- 
obovato, apicato, incurvo. 
Found by Mr. John Wolfin Anna, fll. The culms are 2-3 feet 
high, but quite slender. The leaves nearly as long and quite narrow, 
those of the involucre about half as long. The spikes are 3’”-6” long, 
3-6-flowered, finally a little brownish. 
Apparently a clear species, in its general aspect resembling C. 
filiculmis, but nearest allied to C. Sieberi, Kunth, of New Holland. 
From C. filiculmis it differs in its teretish PSs spikelets, acute 
glumes, and winged rachis, long involucre &e. _ A. Woop, 
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