BOTANICAL GAZETTE 
MAY, 1866. 
Filices Mexicans. YI. 
Ferns collected in the states of Oaxaca, Morelos and Vera 
Cruz, Mexico, during the seasons of 1894 and 1895, by 
C. G. Pringle, of Charlotte, Vermont. 
GEORGE E. DAVENPORT. 
WITH PLATE XVIII, 
ACROSTICHUM CONFORME Swartz. 
icean cold summit ledges, Sierra de San Felipe, Oaxaca, 
pt. 19, 1894, 10, 300" alt. 
ACROSTICHUM PILOSUM HBK. 
$583, cliffs, Orizaba, Vera Cruz, Jan. 24, 1895. 
Acrostichum Pringlei, n. sp. 
lye 5 to 8" or more tall: rhizome short-creeping, clothed 
. blackish brown closely appressed fibrillose scales: stipes 
red, those of the sterile fronds 1 to 4°, of the 
br = 5 to 7* long, deciduously chaffy and scaly with pale 
Pa Minute scales mixed with darker reddish brown slightly 
as = i toothed scales at the base: sterile and age tre 
Similar, in 5 1 or elliptic 
lnceolat 2 to 2.5" long, 8 to 8 broad, oblong mig 
et both surfaces rusty puberulent with more oF a 
totlan us Chaff, margins fringed with short cilia, texture sub- 
‘ned tips of the veinl hing to the edge. +5605, 
¢ : veinlets reaching to 
iogummit ledges, Sierra de San Felipe, 10,000°, Sept. 25, 
Me = ination of this 
fe Ndebted to Mr. Baker for the determination 0! 
Plaats appears to be intermediate between A Le 
tame jams and I should have dedicated it to him if his 
ad not been preoccupied in this genus. 
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