52 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA {VoLUME 16 
pinnae erect, remote, usually shorter than the sterile lamina, sometimes exceeding it a 
little; panicle usually as long as the stalk, sometimes 2-4 times as long, the divisions 
either laxly disposed or compact; spores cristate, the ridges flexuous and undulate. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Near Petit Godve, Haiti. 
DISTRIBUTION: Peninsular Florida, the Bahamas, and the West Indies generally to Trinidad ; 
as oe in Mexico and Guatemala; known also from a single locality in Brazil and one in 
‘olombia. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Plumier, Traité Foug. p/ 158; Bernh. loc. cit. pl. 3, f. 15a; Hook. & Grev. 
loc. ctt.; Lowe, Nat. Hist. New & Rare Ferns fl. 32; Denks, Akad. Wiss. Wien 23: pl. 18, f. 
9; Ettingsh. Farnkr, /. 172, f. 11, pl. 173, 7.8; D.C. Eaton, Ferns N. Am. pl. 15. 
DOUBTFUL OR EXTRALIMITAIL, SPECIES 
Anemia cornea Prantl, Schiz. 104. 1881. Described from specimens collected near 
Trapiche de la Concepcion, Oaxaca, Mexico, altitude about 900 meters, Liehmann. Pre- 
sumably a valid species, resembling 4. humilis but distinct in spore characters. Only a 
small frond of the original collection has been seen by the writer. Known only from the 
type collection. 
Anemia distans Fée, Mém. Foug. 9: 41 (33). 1857. Founded upon specimens from 
Talea, Mexico, Galeotti 6567bis. Unidentified; the description very incomplete. 
Anemia elegans (Gardn.) Presl, Abh. Bohm. Ges. Wiss. V. 4: 341. 1845. (Trochop- 
terts elegans Gardn. Lond. Jour. Bot. 1: 74. p/. 4. 1842.) Apparently confined to Brazil, 
the type being from the Serra de Natividad, province of Goyaz, Gardner 4085. By con- 
fusion of collectors’ numbers erroneously ascribed to Cuba; see Prantl, Schiz. 90. 1881. 
Anemia filiformis (Savigny) Sw. Syn. Fil.156. 1806. (Osmunda filiformis Savigny, 
in Lam. Encyc. 4: 652. 1797. Anemia vepens minor Raddi, Pl. Bras. 1: 71. pl. 9, /. 
2a. 1825.) Type from South America, and only South American specimens are cited by 
Prantl. Cited from Jamaica by Jenman, probably in error, and from Mexico by Pres] on 
the basis of specimens collected near Tlacolula by Ehrenberg. Not seen by the writer and 
not cited from North America by Prantl. 
Anemia helveola Fée, Mém. Foug. 9: 41 (32). 1857. Founded upon specimens from 
Villa Alta, Oaxaca, Mexico, Galeotti 6585bis. Unidentified; the description meager. 
Anemia laciniata Link, Fil. Sp. 25. 1841. Described from cultivated specimens; 
regarded by Prantl (oc. cit. 121) as a hybrid, 4. ciliata X Phyllitidis. Further synonymy 
is given by Prantl, who cites specimens also from Venezuela and Mexico. Not known to 
the writer from specimens. 
Anemia mandioccana Raddi, Opusc. Sci. Bol. 3: 282. 1819. A strictly Brazilian 
species, ascribed to Jamaica by Grisebach; on this account included by Jenman in his treat- 
ment of the Jamaican species, his description drawn from Brazilian specimens. 
Anemia Munchii Christ, Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 7: 792. 1907. Founded upon speci- 
mens from San Cristobal, Chiapas, Mexico, Munch 30. Not seen by the writer ; from the 
description apparently a small abnormal form of A. Phyliitidis. 
Anemia Presliana Pranti, Schiz. 104. 1881. Apparently confined to Brazil. The 
Guatemalan and Colombian plants so referred by Hieronymus (Bot. Jahrb. 34: 565. 1905) 
are A. humilis, as here understood. 
Anemia repens Raddi, Opusc. Sci. Bol. 3: 282. 1819; Raddi, Pl. Bras. 1: 71. pl. 9. 
J. 26 (B major, nota). 1825. (Anemia ciliata Presl, Del. Prag. 1: 158. 1822.) Ascribed 
to Mexico, Honduras, Panama, and Santo Domingo by Prantl. Material within this range 
examined by the writer is referable to 4. hirsuta, from which A. repens is perhaps not 
separable specifically. The type is from Brazil. 
