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Dryopteris Villosa— Trott's Cave, Paynter's 

 Vale, and a cave south of Church Cave. Plen- 

 tiful in those localities only. 



Dryopteris Berinudiana— An endemic spe- 

 cies. Locality unspecitied, but specimen 

 obtained by the Ctialletiger. 



Nephrolepis Exaltata — Common among 

 rocks at Walsingham. 



Polypodium Elasticum (Piiiniula) — Payn- 

 ter's Vale and Walsin^hatii tract, sparingly. 



Polypodium Peclinatum— Hemsley the only 

 authority for this .'■pecies, giving Walsiiig- 

 singham as its habitat. 



Acrosticum Aiireum— Abundant in brack- 

 ish marshes, the South Shore marshes yi«*ltl- 

 ing smaller specimens thin those in D«'von- 

 shire. 



Acrosticum Lomarioides — l)istingiiibhe«l 

 from previous species by its larger sizn*, at- 

 taining sometimes a height of eight or nine 

 feet. It grt)ws in the Devonshire marsh out 

 of the reach of tide water. 



Osmunda Regalis— Abundant in Pembroke 

 and Devonshire marshes. 



Osmunda Cinamonea— Same localities as 

 above, and very abundant, and luxuriant in 

 growth. 



Blechnum Occi<lentale— Cited by Lef roy as 

 "planted out in sui«;ib:«' [>laces in 1877." No 

 evi<ience of its exist. 'ii.-.' now, and may be re- 

 garded as a case of f.iibireto become natural- 

 ized. Eliminating this and Dryoptn-i.H .Uo//<.s 

 there are twenty-five speci*^8 and varieties 

 that may propeily be regarded as native or 

 naturalized. There are four distinctive 

 species and variety belonging to Bermuda 

 alone, evidently the remains of an earlier 

 geological period than the present land suf- 

 fice of Bermuda. 



