SCHIZAEACEAE 



tish. Sporophyls erect: segments terminal in a penicil- 

 late tuft, spuriously digitate. Indusium continuous, 

 formed of the narrowly reflexed margin of the leaf- 

 segment. Represented in the United States by the fol- 

 lowing species: 



1. A. German! Fee. Leaves rigidly erect, 1 or sev- 

 eral from a bristly tuber usually buried in rotten wood, 

 borne upon a slender chestnut-brown 

 rootstock, 5-15 cm. long, about 1 mm. 

 in diameter, triangular or flattish in 

 drying : spore-bearing segments linear, 

 1-4 pairs, 8-15 mm. long, the spo- 

 rangia in 2 rows, often appearing in 

 4 's from crowding, the mid-vein pilose. 

 Low hammocks. Figure 3, reduced. 



This relative of the northern curly- 

 grass has been found but twice in 

 Florida. It was discovered in low 

 hammocks about the headwaters of 

 the Miami River in 1904. About a 

 decade later it was found on Royal 

 Palm Hammock, where it occurred 

 very sparingly in the northern part 

 of the forest. It grows in decaying 

 wood, sometimes in stumps over a 

 meter from the ground. Outside of 

 Florida it is known only in the West Indies. 



2. AJTEMIA Sw. 



Terrestrial erect plants, with creeping or ascending 

 rootstocks. Leaves (in our species) with the lower- 

 most pair of leaflets (sporophyls) of some of the blades 



