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POLYPODIACEAE. 



1. Pycnodoria longifolia (L.) 



Britton. LONG-LEAVED BRAKE. 



(Tig. 453.) Leaves somewhat 



spreading; petioles 6'-12' long, 



clothed below with pale brown 



scales ; blades oblong-lanceolate, 



l-2 long; pinnae linear, 2"-5" 



wide, entire, sessile; veins close, 



usually once branched; indusium 



yellowish brown. [Pteris longifolia 



L.] 



Abundant on walls and banks in 

 Hamilton and vicinity and locally 

 elsewhere. Naturalized. Native of 

 Florida and tropical America. First 

 recorded as established in Bermuda 

 by Reade in 1883 ; it w?-S planted 

 out in suitable localities by Lefroy 

 about 1875. 



4. ANOPTEEIS [Prantl] Diels. 



A delicate bright green fern, with short rootstocks and pinnately dis- 

 sected dimorphous leaves, their petioles with several main fibrovascular bundles. 

 Indusium simple, marginal, lateral on the pinnules. [Greek, not Pteris.] A 

 monotypic West Indian genus. 



1, Anopteris hexagona (L.) 

 Christensen. CUT-LEAVED BRAKE. 

 (Fig. 454.) Boots thick-fibrous; 

 leaves tufted, 6'-2 long, with 

 slender straw-colored shining peti- 

 oles; leaves ovate in outline, 2-3- 

 pinnate, the pinnules of the sterile 

 leaves broader than those of the 

 fertile; indusium membranous, 

 linear, not extending to the apex 

 or the base of the obovate cune- 

 ate, serrate pinnules. [Adiantum 

 hexagonum L. ; Pteris heterophylla 



Local in caves and crevices be- 

 tween Harrington Sound and Castle 

 Harbor. Native. West Indies. 



