48 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLrumE 16 
veins. Fertile fronds 15-25 cm. long, the lamina one-third to one-sixth as long as the 
slender subflexuous stramineous stipe; pinnae alternate, remote, petiolate, the lowermost 
5-15 mm. long ; pinnules short and close, with few pilose segments ; spores reticulate-striate. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Eastern Cuba. ‘ 
DISTRIBUTION : Confined to Cuba. The Yucatan plant referred to this species is A. cicutaria. 
19. Anemia cicutaria Kunze; Spreng. Syst. Veg. 4: 31. 1827; 
Linnaea 9: 22. 1834. 
Mohria intermedia J. Smith, Lond. Jour. Bot. 2: 387. 1843. 
Coptophylium cicutarium Klotzsch, Linnaea 18: 527. 1844. 
Ornithopteris cicutaria Underw. Mem. Torrey Club 12: 15. 1902. 
Anemia bipinnata Moore, Index Fil. cxvi. 1857. Not A. bipinnata Sw. 1806. 
Rhizome short-creeping, densely clothed with short dark-brown hairs; fronds dimor- 
phous, dorsal, obscurely distichous, closely fasciculate, the stipes of the fertile ones easily 
surpassing the sterile fronds. Sterile fronds 6-15 cm. long, ascending or spreading; stipes 
filiform, 6-8.5 cm. long, flexuous or arcuate, stramineous; lamina deltoid to deltoid-ovate, 
3-8.5 cm. long, 2.5-7 cm. broad, bipinnate, or, as to the lower pinnae, deeply tripinnatifid ; 
pinnae 3-7 pairs, alternate, contiguous or mostly apart, ascending (or the lowermost 
spreading), the middle and lower ones petiolate, subequilateral, deltoid to deltoid-ovate, 
obtuse, those above rhombic-ovate to oblong, finally confluent at the short obtuse apex; 
pinnules of the basal pinnae 2-5 pairs, short-stalked or sessile, rhombic-ovate to rhombic- 
oblong, unequally cuneate, the larger ones deeply pinnatifid into 1-3 (4) pairs of oblique 
cuneate segments, these inciso-dentate at the obtuse apex; pinnules and segments anadro- 
mous; veins slightly elevated upon both surfaces; leaf-tissue firmly membranous, opaque, 
slightly paler below, sparsely pilose upon both surfaces, copiously glandular below, spar- 
ingly so above. Fertile fronds 5-14 em. long, the panicle one-third to nearly one-half as 
long as the slender stramineous or brownish-stramineous stipe; pinnae distant, alternate, 
the lowermost up to 5 cm. long, long-stalked, the pinnules short, sessile, with marginate 
segments; spores reticulate-striate. 
TYPE LOCALITY : In crevices of rocks, along shaded river near the Embarcadero del Canimar, 
Cuba, 
DISTRIBUTION : Cuba; islands of Abaco, Andros, and New Providence, Bahamas; Yucatan. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Kunze, Anal. Pterid. £/. 5, 7.2; Field Columb. Mus, Publ. Bot. 3: 13. f£; 14. 
J. (the last as Orntthopterts Wrightit). 
20. Anemia portoricensis Maxon, sp. nov. 
Rhizome creeping, densely covered with dark-brown or blackish turgid acicular hairs; 
fronds dimorphous, dorsal, distichous, clustered, the fertile ones equaling or surpassing the 
sterile. Sterile fronds recurved or ascending, 8-21 cm. long; stipes flexuous, 6-12 cm. 
long, slender or stoutish, clothed with stiff ascending or appressed brownish acicular hairs; 
lamina oblong-deltoid, oblong or deltoid-oblong, obtuse, 7-12 cm. long, 3-6 cm. broad in 
the lower part, bipinnate at the base, bipinuatifid above; pinnae spreading, approximate 
to imbricate, mostly short-stalked, only the upper ones subsessile, the lowermost unequally 
rounded-deltoid to deltoid-oblong, with 1 or rarely 2 pairs of mainly suborbicular short- 
stalked or sessile segments below the obtuse cuneate-lobate terminal segment; middle 
pinnae similar, often only deeply lobed, or with a free basal segment at the upper side, 
rounded exciso-cuneate at the lower; upper pinnae rhombic-ovate, cuneate at the base 
below, the uppermost suborbicular to obovate, finally subconfluent and commonly forming 
an unequal cuneate lightly lobate terminal segment; veins elevated below, immersed but 
apparent above; margins greatly thickened, cartilaginous, subentire or lightly sinuate- 
dentate, slightly revolute, the pinnules by contraction often strongly concave; leaf-tissue 
rigidly coriaceous, lustrous and minutely glandular upon both surfaces, sparsely long-pilose 
below with curved antrorse yellowish-white subpersistent hairs. Fertile fronds slender but 
erect, subflexuous, 10-22 cm. long; stipe slender, light-brown; lamina linear-oblong, 
usually about one-third or one-half as long as the stipe; pinnae subopposite or alternate, 
all but the uppermost distant, short-stalked, the lowermost up to 1.5 cm. long; pinnules 
conspicuously glandular-pilose, subflabellate ; spores broadly striate, the ridges subflexuous 
and uneven. 
