﻿600 Gilbert : Revision of the Bermuda Ferns 



Dryopteris Thelypteris (L.) A. Gray. 



Lefroy says this is found " along the north side of Pembroke 

 marsh and not elsewhere/' but I found it in a small marsh on the 

 north side of Hamilton, where it grows rather sparingly among 

 dog-bush and Rhyncospora stcllata. 



Dryopteris mollis (Desv.) Kuntze. 



Although this fern is given by Hemsley, he tells us that there 

 is no specimen of it in the Kew herbarium from Bermuda. Lefroy 

 states that he planted it out, but does not include it in his list, from 

 which it is to be inferred that the species did not become estab- 

 lished. If Hemsley had no specimen of it from Bermuda, it seems 

 possible that he may have accepted Lefroy's effort to naturalize it 

 as an accomplished fact and reported it in accordance therewith. 

 Reade gives it, probably on the same authority, or he might easily 

 have mistaken a specimen of D. Bermudiana or even of D. patens 

 for D. viol lis. At all events, it does not seem probable that the 

 species grows in Bermuda now. 



Dryopteris villosa (S\v.) Kuntze. 



This fern is said by Lefroy to be pretty abundant and to grow 

 in dry places. I found it plentiful in a long " cave " south of the 

 Church cave and also in Trott's cave ; also growing on the face of 

 the cliff at Lovers' Nook, Paynter's Vale. The plants were large 

 and apparently very fine, but it was difficult to select fronds that 

 were not ragged or imperfect, although the fern was just in its 

 prime. In fact, this was true of several of the larger ferns, but it 

 may have been caused by the uncommonly dry weather of the 

 month of March. 



. Dryopteris Bermudiana (Baker) Gilbert. 

 As this is one of the endemic species of Bermuda, and as Mr. 

 Baker's short description of it is in Latin, I will give one in Eng- 

 lish, drawn from my own specimens. 



Caudex thick, shortly creeping, producing a mass of dark 

 brown roots chaffy at the crown with lanceolate long-pointed brown 

 scales y± in. long : stipes about 6 in. long with same scales at base, 



finely pilose ; rachis stramineous like stipes and densely pilose 



frond 10-16 in. long, 3 



I//-3 in. long, 



