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or forked hairs. Head of sporangium glabrous, but its pedicel bears a single 
simple or furcate hair. — None of the specimens referred hereto shows small short- 
stalked sterile leaves, which are often to be seen in specimens of D. reptans; all 
leaves from the same rhizome are always uniform, the stipes are stramineous, 
glabrous. 8—15 cm long, slightly scaly below, fasciculated on an erect rhizome, 
which is rather scaly at the top by glossy, brown, acuminate, stellato-pubescent 
scales. Larger specimens may be confounded with D. serrulata, but I think, that it 
always can be distinguished from that species by its more decidedly pubescent rachis 
and coste and its rounded lobes. From D. sclerophylla it differs by its fresh-or- 
dark-green colour, thinner texture and non stellato-pilose surfaces. 
Maxon, believing that P. asplenioides Sw. was founded on SroaAwE's plate 43 
fig. 2, quoted by Swanrz, reduced Swanrz's name to a synonym of D. serrulata. 
Granting that SroawE's plate illustrates our D. serrulata rather than D. asplenioides 
I must say again that Swartz never founded a species on old figures; his P. asple- 
nioides is founded on specimens collected by himself in Jamaica. A specimen 
from Herb. Sw. (S), which belongs to the present species, agrees very well with 
SwanTZ's description in Fl. Ind. occ. 1659, but unfortunately it is not labelled with 
certainty by SwARTZ. 
D. asplenioides varies especially in size and texture, which probably is due 
to age and outer conditions. It is in its true form apparently confined to Jamaica. 
Jamaica: Maxon nr..875, 1406 (= UwpERnwoop nr. 2531), 1507, 1894, 2209, 2258, 2270, 2338, 2866 
(W); UnpERwoop nr. 1800, 320, 2978, 3106 (W); CLuTE nr. 120; Harris nr. 7342, 7592 (B); 
Hart nr. 1714, 211 (W). 
Haiti: Port au Prince, Picarpa nr. 734 (B) (doubtful). 
Cuba: WnmniaHT nr. 1801 (S, W). 
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290. Dryopteris bermudiana (Bak.) Gilb. Bull. Torr. Cl. 25: 600. 1898; 
C. Chr. Ind. 254. 
Syn. Nephrodium bermudianum Baker apud Hemsley, Chall. Exp. Bot. l': 
86 tab, 13. 1885. 
Type from Bermuda (not seen). 
Closely related to D. asplenioides and the smaller forms difficult to distinguish 
from that species. Still the pinnz are generally larger (8—10 = 2 cm) and cut 
more than halfway to the costa. Both surfaces with scattered, whitish, simple or 
forked hairs, most numerous on the ribs; rachis rather hairy by short stellate 
hairs and longer, simple ones. Veins 6—7-jugate, the lower pair united or more 
often running side by side to the sinus, the others very often furcate. Sori 
medial or supramedial, furnished with a ciliate indusium; hairs of indusium 
simple, or, rarely forked. Sporangia without hair on the pedicel. The scales of 
the oblique rhizome are stellato-pilose throughout; they are not so large as shown 
in the plate quoted, which otherwise illustrate the species very well. 
Endemic in Bermuda Islands, GirBgEenT (W), G. B. Goode (W); W. G. Farrow (S)- Rein nr. 90 (BJ. 
