256 UNDERWOOD: AMERICAN FERNS 
described as “ subtus albido villosis,” to say nothing of numerous 
other characters. 
The present species forms immense thickets on banks and 
overgrows paths that are long neglected. Its general habit may 
be seen from a photograph taken last year in Porto Rico by Dr. 
Fic 
Journal of the New York Botanical Garden, ) 
Bank covered with Dicranopteris fulva, Porto Rico, (Courtesy of the 
M. A. Howe which is here reproduced by the courtesy of the 
New York Botanical Garden (FIGURE 2). This is the species alluded 
to‘above (page 244) at the Tweedside plantation, Jamaica. 
DisTRIBUTION: Cuba, Jamaica, Porto Rico, Hispaniola, and in 
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