46 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Near Nueva Gerona, January 6, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 277; 

 on shaded clay sides of an arroyo northeast of Nueva Gerona, May 

 14, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 2'/g; near Nueva Gerona, June 12, 1912, 

 G. A. Link. General Distribution: Cuba, Isle of Pines, Jamaica, 

 Haiti, Porto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Jan, Guadeloupe, Martinique. 



52. Pteridium caudatum (Linnaeus) Maxon. Bracken. 



Pleris caudata Linn^us, Species Plantarum, 1753, p. 1075; Grisebach, Flora of 



the British West Indian Islands, 1864, p. 670. 

 Pteridium aquilinum var. caudatum Hooker, in Hooker & Baker, Synopsis Fili- 



cum, Ed. II, 1874, p. 162. 



In dry thicket on savanna east of Nueva Gerona, May 13, 1910, 

 0. E. Jennings, No. 2JQ. General Distribution: From Florida and 

 the Bahamas south through the West Indies and tropical continental 

 America. 



53. Polypodium polypodioides (Linnaeus) Hitchcock. 



Rock Polypody. 



Acrostichum polypodioides Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, 1753, p. 1068. 

 Polypodium polypodioides Hitchcock, Report of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 

 IV, 1893, p. 156. 



On old tree-trunk at top of Caballos Mts., May 13, 1910, 0. E. 

 Jennings, No. 224. General Distribution: From Pennsylvania and 

 Illinois south to Argentina and Chile, also south Africa. 



This fern is rare, at least, in the northern part of the island, it 

 having been much sought after by the local inhabitants, by whom it 

 is said to have been shipped to Havana as a medicinal herb. 



54. Goniophlebium ampliatum Maxon. 



Polypodiufti gladiatum Kuntze, Linnaea, IX, 1834, p. 45. Not Veil, 1827. 

 Goniophlebium ampliatmn Maxon, Contributions from the U. S. National Her- 

 barium, X, 1908, p. 492. 



In 1901, by A. A.. Taylor, No. 9, see Maxon, /. c. General Distri- 

 bution: Cuba, Isle of Pines, and Jamaica. 



55. Campyloneuron phyllitidis (Linnaeus) Presl. 



Polypodium phyllitidis Linn.eus, Species Plantarum, 1753, p. 1083; Grisebach, 



Flora of the British West Indian Islands, 1864, p. 702. 

 Campyloneuron phyllitidis Presl, Tentamen Pteridographiae, 1836, p. 190. 



In swamp northeast of Bibijagua, May 13, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, 

 No. 242. General Distribution: The Bahamas, West Indies, and from 

 Florida to Argentina. 



