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NATURAL HISTORY BULLETIN. 



Terrestrial, the fronds occurring in scant tufts in the deep 

 woods near Camp Menocal. 



Not heretofore specifically reported from Nicaragua. 



2. L. horizontAlis Hook. PI. xi, Figs. 8-n. 



Hook., Sp. Fil., vol. i, p. 214, pi. lxii B; Eaton, Fil. Wr. et Fend., p. 213. 



The two specimens which are referred to this species agree 

 in every detail with the description and figure given by 

 Hooker. As has already been stated it may be necessary 

 to unite this with the preceding species, but the distinction be- 

 tween the Nicaraguan specimens is well-marked. The speci- 

 mens referred to L.horizontalis are larger, more divided, with 

 pale and more slender stipe, and paler, thinner, smaller pin- 

 nules. The difference in the apices, as shown by the figures, 

 is marked, and is also constant in the set in the Herbarium 

 of the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis. One of the fronds 

 is about 18 inches long, and has a stipe 1 foot in length. It has 

 nine pairs of lateral pinnae which gradually diminish in length 

 toward the tip of the frond. The terminal pinna is small. 

 The other frond is smaller and has but two pairs of lateral 

 pinnae. Both specimens closely resemble Wright's Cuban 

 specimen No. 976 in the Herbarium of the State University. 

 Of Wright's No. 976 Eaton 1 savs that it is in part L. trapezi- 

 f or mis and in part L. horizontalis. 



Growing on the trunk of a tree in the deep woods near 

 Camp Menocal. 



Not heretofore reported from Nicaragua. 



Family III. DAVALLIEiE. 



Genus DAVALLIA Smith. 



1. D. saccoloma Spreng. PI. xi, Fig. 12; PL xn, Figs. 1-4. 



Hook., Sp. Fil., vol. 1, p. 170: Eaton, Fil. Wr. et Fend., p. 212; Hook, and 

 Bak., Svn. Fil., p. 97; Hemsl., Biol. Cent. Am., vol. in, p. 605. 

 Saccoloma elegatis Kaulf., — Kunze, Farm., p. 85, pi. xli ; Smith, Ferns, 

 Brit, and For., p. 235. 



1 Fil. Wr. et Fend., p. 213. 



