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56. Phlebodium aureum (Linnaeus) Robert Brown. 

 Golden Polypody. 



Polypodium aureum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, 1753, p. 1087; Grisebach, 



Flora of the British West Indian Islands, 1864, p. 698. 

 Phlebodium aureum Robert Brown, in Horsfield, Plantae Jav-anicae Rariores, I, 



1838, p. 4. 



On trunks of Royal Palm {Roystonea regia) along an arroyo north 

 of Sante Fe, May 25, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, Nos. 535a and 6og; similar 

 habitat south of Sante Fe, May 25, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, Nos. 610 

 and 611. General Distribution: The Bahamas and West Indies 

 southwards to South America. 



The smaller specimens seem to approach very closely Phlebodium 

 areolatum Willdenow, 



57. Acrostichum aureum Linnaeus. 



Acroslichum aureum LiNN^us, Species Plantarum, 1753, p. 1069. 



Chrysodium vulgare Fee, Histoire de Acrostichees, 1845, p. 97. 



Chrysodium aUreum Mettenius, Filices Horti Botanici Lipsiansis, 1856, p. 21. 



In swamp southwest of Bibijagua, May 7, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 

 84. General Distribution: Tropics and subtropics generally, in 

 America extending north as far as the Bermudas and Bahamas. 



Family MARSILEACE.F:. 

 58. Marsilea polycarpa Hooker & Greville. 



Marsilea polycarpa Hooker & Greville, Icones Filicum, II, 1831, pi. 160. 

 Marsilea caribcea Underwood (Herbarium name, unpublished). 



Near Nueva Gerona, December 10, 1903, A. H. Curtiss, No. 220. 

 General Distribution: Cuba, the Isle of Pines, Jamaica, continental 

 tropical America; the Society Islands. 



Family LYCOPODIACE^. 

 59. Lycopodium cernuum Linnaeus. 

 Lycopodium cernuum Linn^us, Species Plantarum, II, Ed. I, 1753, p. 1103. 



Near Nueva Gerona, January 28, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 318; 

 near Nueva Gerona, February-March, 1910, /. F. Shafer; in swampy 

 border of pond one mile east of Nueva Gerona, May 6, 1910, 0. E. 

 Jennings; near base of Caballos Mts., May 13, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, 

 No. 224a; winter of 1912, G. A. Link. General Distribution: From 

 Florida to Mississippi, through the West Indies, common in the 

 tropics. 



