44 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA {VorumE 16 
TYPE LOCALITY : Jamaica. 
DISTRIBUTION: Jamaica, Santo Domingo, and Porto Rico, and on the continent from Mexico 
and Central America southward to Brazil. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Plumier, Traité Foug. p/. 162; Ark. Bot.1: pl. 12, f. 3. 
10. Anemia pastinacaria Moritz; Prantl, Schiz. 110. 1881. 
Anemia pilosa longistipes Liebm. Vidensk. Selsk. Skr. V.1: 301. 1849. 
Anemia longistipes C. Chr. Index Fil. 53. 1905. 
Rhizome horizontal ; fronds several, the stipe of the fertile fronds surpassing the sterile 
fronds, often greatly so. Fertile fronds (including the greatly elongate fertile pinnae) 
18-48 cm. long ; stipe 7-25 cm. long, slender, stramineousor darker at the base, glabrescent ; 
sterile lamina ovate-deltoid, sometimes narrowly so, 4-8.5 cm. long, 2.5-5.5 cm. broad, 
pinnate, acutish to acuminate, the rachis slender, glabrescent ; pinnae 6-10 pairs, approxi- 
mate or nearly their width apart, the lower ones spreading, the others ascending, all but 
the uppermost subsessile; lower and middle pinnae strongly inaequilateral at the base, 
long-cuneate below, above obtusely truncate, obliquely oblong, the apex obtuse or acutish, 
the margins thickened, irregularly denticulate-crenulate, commonly with a few very shallow 
oblique incisions, especially upon the upper margin ; upper pinnae gradually smaller, nar- 
rower, semiadnate, abruptly confluent at the apex; leaf-tissue rigidly membranous to her- 
baceo-coriaceous, opaque, dull-greenish above, lighter below, sparingly pilose above, gla- 
brescent below; veins elevated above, nearly concealed below; fertile pinnae 10-23 cm. 
long, 144-2% times as long as the sterile lamina, the stalks a little longer than the closely 
branched panicle; spores striate, the ridges with numerous slender columnar processes. 
Sterile fronds 8-23 cm. long, the stipe as long as the lamina ; lamina 4-11.5 cm. long, 3-5 
em. broad, ovate-oblong or rarely deltoid-ovate, otherwise resembling the sterile lamina of 
the fertile fronds. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Rocky situations, valley of the Rio Tigre, Colombia. 
DISTRIBUTION: Southern Mexico and Central America; Cuba (rare); also in northern South 
America. 
ILLUSTRATION : Hook. Gen. Fil. p/. 90 (as A. mandioccana), erroneously ascribed by writers to 
A, hirta. 
11. Anemia jaliscana Maxon, sp. nov. 
Rhizome horizontal; fronds several, clustered, the stipe of the fertile fronds usually 
surpassing the sterile fronds. Fertile fronds (including the elongate fertile pinnae) 15-32 
cm. long; stipe 9-20 cm. long, slender, stramineous, glabrate or with a few long rusty 
hairs; lamina broadly deltoid-oblong, 4-10 cm. long, 2.5-6 cm. broad, pinnate, tapering 
gradually from the base, the apex obtuse, the rachis slender, greenish-stramineous; pinnae 
5-7 pairs, contiguous, spreading, sessile, variable, obliquely and broadly oblong to rhombic- 
ovate, strongly inaequilateral at the base, long-cuneate, lightly and irregularly toothed to 
deeply lobed, or the lowermost exciso-cuneate at the base below, obtusely truncate above, 
sometimes pinnatifid at the base, the apex obtuse; upper pinnae gradually narrower, cune- 
ate, the uppermost sometimes greatly reduced and subconfluent, forming a deeply lobed 
terminal segment, or scarcely reduced, the terminal segment nearly conform, obovate, 
cuneate; leaf-tissue membranous, dull-greenish and conspicuously short-hispid above, 
below much paler, minutely glandular, and with a few scattered hairs; veins elevated 
above, immersed below; margins thickened, irregularly dentate-crenulate ; fertile pinnae 
8-14 cm. long, surpassing the sterile lamina, the stalk 2-4 times as long as the usually 
dense panicle; spores sharply cristate, the ridges scabrous. Sterile fronds about one half 
as long as the fertile ; stipe and lamina about equal, otherwise similar to those of the fer- 
tile frond. 
Type collected on cool grassy bluffs of barranca near Guadalajara, State of Jalisco, Mexico, 
September 15, 1891, Pringle 3850 (U. S. Nat. Herb. xo, 50583). : 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the State of Jalisco, Mexico; apparently common. 
12. Anemia Brandegei Davenp. Fern Bull. 13: 20. 1905. 
Rhizome very short, ascending, closely covered with long few-celled fulvous hairs; 
fronds several, fasciculate, ascending or spreading (not rosulate), the stipes of the fertile 
fronds mostly not equaling the sterile fronds. Fertile fronds 2.5-5 cm. long; stipes deli- 
