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at Fort Myers, the southernmost point at which it was seen. 

 There was no evidence of fruit in either March or June. 



Woodwardia virginica (L.) J. E. Smith 



Sandy cypress-swamps at Fort Lauderdale and in the thickets 

 near the river at Fort Myers. The southernmost points at which 

 it was observed. Sparingly fruited in December and March. 



Asplenium biscaynianum (D. C. Eaton) A. A. Eaton 



Asplcnium rliizophyUum var. biscaynianum D. C. Eaton, Bull. 

 Torrey Club 14: 97. 1885. 



Rootstocks short, erect, clothed at tip with linear-lanceolate, 

 rown, white-fenestrate scales; fronds 10-50, erect; stipes 4- 

 15 cm. long, 1/4-2/5 the entire length, dull-castaneous with a 

 few fenestrate and many scattered small membranous scales when 

 young, smooth when old, angled on front at base, the angles be- 

 coming green wings above ; rachis castaneous beneath, green 

 above, winged ; lamina 1-2.5 dm. long, 1.5-3 cm - wide, linear- 

 oblanceolate, broadest above the middle, bipinnate ; pinnae 1 2—20 

 pairs, obliquely ascending, 1—2 cm. long, 0. 5-1 cm. wide, the 

 lower remote, the upper approximate, dark-green, rather firmly 

 herbaceous, with 5-7 pinnules; the lowest superior pinnule is 

 cuneate-obovate, with a midnerve that gives off 2-6 branches, 

 each of which ends in a short, obtuse or acute lobe ; the second 

 and third and often the fourth and fifth pinnules are 2-4-nerved 

 with as many lobes, the next one or two linear-falcate, the term- 

 inal one similar to the basal but more deeply lobed ; son large, 

 often exceeding half the length of the pinnule, 2-4 to each of 

 the larger, one to each segment of the terminal and one to each 

 of the narrow intermediate ones ; on the latter they are submarginal, 

 facing the midrib, and are often incurved, giving the pinnule a fal- 

 cate appearance ; indusia firm. 



This fern was found abundantly at the bluffs near the Punch- 

 bowl in Breckell hammock, in company with A. dentatum and A. 

 verecnndian, between which it appears to be an almost exact inter- 

 mediate in cutting, having the erect caudices, long stipes, firmer 

 texture and large sori of the former and the larger size and brown 

 stipes of the latter. At the time of collecting I was struck with 

 the aspect and habit of this plant, and wondered if it could be a 

 hybrid. I was somewhat surprised on referring to Holden's note 

 in the Bulletin of the Torrey Club (/. c. 97) to find that I had 



