March, 1900. Plant/e Utowante- -Millspaugh. 17 



Polystictus albocervinus Berk. Lond. Jour. Bot. 1856:234. Plate lv, 

 fig. 1. 

 On standing dead trees (leguminous) near the Caleta, Cozumel 



(1559)- 



Polystictus sanguineus (Linn.) Mey. Esseq: 304. Plate lv, fig. 2. 



Boletus sanguineus Linn. On trunks of dead coco trees, at The 

 Creek, Cayman Brae (1163); south shore Grand Cayman (1357). On 

 living and dead coco trees, Cozumel (1614). 



Polyporus similis Berk. Fung. Braz: 6. 



On standing dead trees, near the Caleta, Cozumel (1615). 



AGARICACE^. 



Lentinus Nicaraguensis B. & C. N.Pac. Expl: 85. Plate lv, fig. 5. 



On dead wood under edge of log, woodlands near Spot Bay, 

 Grand Cayman (1356). In same situation, center of Cozumel, and 

 near Piste, Yucatan. 



SELAGINELLACE.E. 



Selaginella cuspidata Link. Fil. Hort. Berol. : 158(1841). 



Plentiful near the cenote Nohoch Chen, Chichen Itza, Yucatan 

 (1620), called by the Ma^yas X-mux-coc, "dried pectoral," although 

 no use is made of the plant in asthma, difficult breathing, or kindred 

 complaints by the Mayas of the present day so far as I am able to 

 determine. It is used as a remedy in catarrhal affections of the chest 

 when expectoration is profuse. A literal translation of the Maya name 

 \stnux dried or desiccated; coc asthma, difficult or wheezy breathing, 

 the prefix X simply denoting the feminine gender. Selaginella longis- 

 picata Underw. Field Col. Mus. Bot., 1:287, is also called X-mux-coc; 

 the two species are used indiscriminately in domestic medication. 



PTERTDOPHYTA.* 

 POLYPODIACEvE. 



Aspidium scolopendriodes (Linn.) Mett. Aspid. 97. 



Polypodium L. Nephrodium Hook. Dryopteris Ktze. Shady rock 

 clefts near Port Antonio, Jamaica (912, 1133). 



Good characteristic specimens of this species which holds a most 

 unsatisfactory position. I have not yet been able to find any trace of 

 an indusium in any specimens that I have seen. If one ever exists it 

 must be " very fugacious " indeed. Its affinities are nearer to Goniop- 

 teris, where Presl placed it. 



Aspidium molle (Jacq.) Swartz Syn, 49. 



Polypodium Jacq., Lastrea Bory, Nephrodium Desv., Polypodium 

 parasiticum Linn. Dryopteris parasitica (L.) Ktze., Nephrodium para- 

 siticum (L.) Shimek. I have not been able to satisfy myself that A. 

 parasiticum (L.) Swtz. [Polypodium parasiticum Linn. ) is identical with 



*By Mr. George E. Davenport. 



