THE FERNS OF NICARAGUA. I( 5- 



Bot. Lip., p. 71: Hook., Fil. Ex., pi. lxxiii: Mett., Ub. Ein. Farng., pt. 

 vi, p. 170: Eaton, Fil. Wr. et Fend., p. 206; Hook., Sp. Fil., vol. ill, p. 

 271 : Hook, and Bak., Syn. Fil., p. 246; Hemsl., Biol. Cent. Am., vol. m» 

 p. 636. 



Hemidictyum marginatum Pre^l, Tent. Pter., p. 113, pi. m, fig. 24: Roth., 

 Les Foug., vol. 11, p. 63, pi. xxi ; Smith, Ferns, Br. and For., p. 22s. 



This well-marked species was rare in the deep, low woods 

 near Castillo. Terrestrial in habit. 



Reported from Chontales by Hemsley. 



(A sterile specimen of what seems to be an Asfilenium was 

 collected near Camp Menocal. It resembles A. rhizoj>hyl- 

 lum Kunze. but the lowest pinnae are the longest and most 

 compound, making the frond sub-deltoid. Young fronds of 

 rkizaphyllum in the Shaw Herbarium, however, show a tend- 

 ency in the same direction, and the Xicaraguan specimen 

 probably belongs to this species. If so it is new to the 

 Nicaraguan list. It may. however, be a small form of A. 

 cicutarium Swartz. This is reported from Chontales by both 

 Fournier and Hemsley. 1 ) 



Reported Species. 

 A. abscissum Willd. 



Fourn.. Sertum Nic. p. 257, from Chontales. 



A. anisaphyllum Kunze. 



Fourn.. Sertum Nic, p. 257; Hemsl., Biol. Cent. Am., vol. in. p. 630; both 

 from Chontales. 



A. call ipt en's (Fee) Bak. 



Fourn., Sertum Nic, p. 25S; Hemsl., Biol. Cent. Am., vol. in, p. 631; both 

 from Chontales. 



A. cicutarium L. 



Fourn., Sertum Nic, p. 257, without locality; Hemsl., Biol. Cent. Am., vol. 

 in, p. 632, from Chontales. 



A.fouruicri Kuhn. 



Fourn., Bull. Soc Bot. Fr., vol. xvn, p. 237, from Ometepe: Fourn., Sertum 

 Nic, p. 257; Hemsl., Biol. Cent. Am., vol. 111, p. 634: the two latter 

 from Ometepe and Granada. 



1 See A. cicutarium under " Reported Species." 



