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Rio: SrünEL nr. 1156 (B); REGNELL nr. 252 (Rg) — Minas Geraes, Caldas, MosÉN nr. 2176 (H, Rg, S); 
Lagoa Santa, WanwiNcG nr. 790 (H) — Sta. Catharina, Blumenau, HAERCHEN (HR). 
Paraguay: Sierra de Amambay, HassrtER nr. 10411 (RB) — San Salvador, J. D. Anisirs nr. 2700 (Rg). 
D. deversa var. tarapotensis Ros. Fedde, Repert. 7: 298. 1909 from Peru, Ta- 
rapoto, SPRucE nr. 4066 pt (RB) is a peculiar form with distant pinnz, the lowermost 
pair much reduced; it belongs scarcely to the var. deversa (Kze.) as here under- 
stood, but may be named D. patens var. tarapotensis (Ros.). It is densely glandu- 
lose beneath, 
var. lanosa n. var. 
A large form of the macroura-type; characterized by its very dense pubescence 
of the veins and indusia; the hairs are very long and the indusia are perfectly 
concealed by a dense mass of long white hairs. 
Mexico: L. Haun nr. 22 (B); BounGEav sine num. (B). 
Costa Rica: Navarro, WERCKLE (C). 
Aspidium Germani L'Herm.; Fée, 11 mém. 82 tab. 23 fig. 3 from Guadeloupe, 
L'HEnwriNIER. (Herb. Cosson, Mus. Paris!) is probably a form of D. palens. The 
specimen seen does not agree perfectly with FÉE's figure but appears to be a young 
plant with very thin leaves and crenate segments. Certainly the general habit of 
the plant and the scales resemble more JD. normalis than D. patens, but the rhi- 
zome is erect. It must provisionally stand among the species dubia. 
191. Dryopteris Goedenii Rosenst., Fedde, Repert. 4: 296. 1907. 
Type from Brazil, Sta. Catharina, Blumenau, G. GoEDEN (R! also CC). 
A rather problematic species, resembling very much small forms of D. Bangii, 
but the rhizome is erect and the lamina not so decidedly narrowed downwards. 
The scales of the rhizome is like those of D. mollis. 
192. Dryopteris normalis C. Chr. Arkiv. fór Bot 9!': 31. 1910. 
Syn. Nephrodium patens Jenm. Bull. Dept. Jam. n. s. 3: 165. 1896; W. Ind. 
and Guiana Ferns 240, et auctt. (pro parte). 
Aspidium patens Eaton Ferns N. Amer. t. 70 et auctt. (pro parte). 
As type of this species I take the Jamaican form, well described by JEN- 
MAN and first rightly understood by him. He says (loc. cit): *this is distinguished 
absolutely from all its creeping under-ground root stock, upon which the fronds 
are arranged in a bi-linear series". To this must be remarked that D. augescens 
has a similar rhizome. . : 
D. normalis is in general habit very near small forms of D. patens, and spe- 
cimens without rhizome can not always be determined with certainty.* Besides 
the rhizome the scales show a constant specific character.. The scales of the rhi- 
zome and the basal part of the slipe are few, mainly confined to the growing apex 
