690 Slosson: New ferns from tropical America 



vicinity of Baracoa, February 1-7, 1902, Pollard, Palmer &* 

 Palmer 237; "in Cuba Orientate, " 1859, i860, C. Wright 828 in 

 part; without specific locality, 1865, C. Wright 828 in part.* 



Explanation of plate 26 



1-3. Trichomanes rhipidophyllum; 1, rootstocks and leaves, slightly reduced; 

 2, 3, sterile and fertile frond, enlarged, showing venation; H. H. Smith 2445. 



4, 5, and unnumbered figures. Polystichum machaerophyllum; 4, indusia, en- 

 larged, Shafer 3262; 5, scale from stipe, enlarged, Wright 828; unnumbered figures, 

 various forms of the plant, reduced, Shafer 3262. (Some of the basal auricles of the 

 pinnae do not show clearly in the photograph, owing to a slight infolding of the 

 dried specimens.) 



* In the Underwood Herbarium and in the U. S. National Herbarium the 

 remainder of Wright's no. 828 is P. decoratum. 





