!q 2 NATURAL HISTORY BULLETIN. 



tion of the plant is not wholly satisfactory. The specimens 

 agree well with Hooker's description, excepting that the stipes 

 and the scales on the rootstock are dark-brown instead of 

 blackish, and the stipes are shorter, measuring i to 2 inches. 

 In some respects, namely in the color and length of the stipe, 

 and in the flexuose frond, the specimen approaches G. lindigii 

 Mett., ] but it will probably be necessary to unite several of the 

 species of this group of the genus Gymnogramma. 



The upper surface of the frond is but sparsely hairy, but 

 the lower surface, like the stipe and rachis, is quite densely 

 tomentose. 



A few other plants were observed, but were not collected 

 in time. They showed the same characters of surface, tex- 

 ture, division and size of the fronds, and a like laxity in habit 

 of growth. 



G. incisa has not been reported from Nicaragua, nor is it 

 mentioned in the Biol. Cent. Am. The nearest locality from 

 which it is reported is New Grenada. 



Reported Species. 

 G.flcxuosa (H. B. K.) Desv. 



Hook., Sp. Fil., vol. v, p. 129; Hook, and Bak., Syn. FiL, p. 384; both with- 

 out exact locality; Hems]., Biol. Cent. Am., vol. in, p. 677, from 

 Ometepe. 



G. rufa (L.) Desv. 



Fourn., Sertum Nic, p. 251, from Ometepe as Neurogramme ; Hemsl., Biol. 

 Cent. Am., vol. in, p. 678, from Granada. 



Genus ANTROPHYUM Kaulf. 



I. A. LANCEOLATUM (■£•) Kaulf. 



Lieb., Mex. Breg., p. 26; Eaton, Fil. Wr. et Fend., p. 197; Hook., Sp. Fil., 

 vol. v, p. 176; Hook, and Bak., Sjn. Fil., p. 394; Smith, Ferns, Br. and 

 For., p. 130; Fourn., Sertum Nic, p. 250; Hemsl., Biol. Cent. Am., vol. 

 in, p. 6S0; Hitch., PI. Bah., p. 157; Bom. et Ch., Fil., p. 239. 



He.mionitis lanceolata L., Syst. Nat., vol. 11, p. 689. 



Loxogramme lanceolata Presl, Tent. Pter., p. 215, pi. ix, fig. S. 



1 Hook, and Bak., Syn. Fil., p. 3S1. 



