THE FERNS OF NICARAGUA. jfig 



This fine fern was rather common in the low woods above 

 Camp Menocal. All of the specimens were arborescent, the 

 trunk reaching a height of 10 feet, and a diameter of 3^ inches. 

 Its surface is free from spines, but is covered with closely- 

 appressed, lanceolate, acuminate, glossv scales, which are 

 dark-brown with a narrow lighter border. The leaf-scars 

 are rather smooth, and measure from 5 to 53/2 inches in length 

 and 1 to 1 V± inches in width. The fronds were 6 to 8 feet long. 



Reported from Chontales by Hemslev. 



Reported Species. 



A. microphx'lla Klotzsch. 



Fourn., Sertum Nic, p. 261, without locality: Hemsl., Biol. Cent. Am., vol. 

 in, p. 594, from Chontales. 



A. firiiitiata (Swartz) Kaulf. 



Hemsl., Biol. Cent. Am., vol. 111, p. 594, from Chontales. 



Lofhosoria fruinata Presl. — Fourn., Sertum Nic, p. 260, from Chontales. 



Family VIII. WOODSIEiE. 1 

 Genus HYPODERRIS Brawn. 

 1. H. seemanni Prentice. PL xvm. Figs. 1-3. 



Hook, and Bak., Syn. Fil., p. 460; Smith, Hist. Fil., p. i9S(note); Hemsl., 

 Biol. Cent. Am., vol. ill, p. - 

 H. adnata Fourn. ( ?), Sertum Nic, p. 260. 

 H. marginalis Fourn. (?), Sertum Nic, p. 260. 



Found sparingly on the banks of a creek in deep woods 

 near Castillo. Some of the fronds are tvpical as described by 

 Baker (ibid.), while others have the terminal 6 to 12 inches of 

 the frond entire. Some of the fronds reach a total height of 

 3 feet. Reported from Nicaragua without locality by Baker, 

 from Chontales bv Hemslev. and also as adnata and margin- 

 all's (if Baker's and Hemsley's reference of these forms to our 

 species is correct) by Fournier. 



1 It was at first the author's intention to leave the Genus Hypoderr'is in 

 the Family Aspidiece, and for that reason the Family fVoodsiees is omitted 



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