258 The Botanical Gazette. [May, 
As the sori mature the indusia turn back, and the long cilia, 
extending beyond or overlapping the face of the pinna, give 
to them, on holding to the light, the appearance of being 
beautifully fringed. The normal condition of the rootstock 
is undoubtedly that of A. Trichomanes, but when compressed 
from growing in tight crevices, it appears to be somewhat 
creeping as in the figure. Mr. Faxon’s drawing admirably 
shows the essential characters of the species. 
ASPLENIUM FRAGRANS Swartz. 
5584, growing on trees, Orizaba, Jan. 25, 1895. 
ASPLENIUM HASTATUM Klotz. 
5582, moist ravines, Orizaba, Jan. 21, 1895. 
ASPLENIUM MONANTHEMUM Linn. 
5964, Sierra de San Felipe, 10,000%, Dec. 10, 1895. 
Specimens pleurosorous above; not an uncommon occul- 
rence in this species. 
Asplenium Eatoni, n. sp. 
Asplenium cicutarium Swz., var. paleaceum Davenport. 5531 of 1893 
collection, Bor. Gaz. 19: 
Rootstock caudiciform and sheathed with the bases of old 
fronds, scales linear, terminating in long cilia, translucent 
; in 
and chaffy; pinnules 3 to * long, to Lia broad, obliquely 
ovate oblong with unequally cuneate, or, on the inner side, 
truncate bases, and pinnatifidly cleft into sharply toothed lobes, 
forked, veinlets entering the lobes, sori large, variously dis 
posed, I to 3 to a pinnule. 6072, 5602, wet cafions . 
ravines, Sierra de San F elipe, 8, 500 to 9,000", Nov. and Det 
1894.—Dedicated to the late Prof. Daniel Cady Eaton. 5 
This fern which, after consultation with Prof. Eaton, ! p)™ 
that species. Prof. Eaton, as well as I, thought that! : 
would eventually be the case, but as the material t 
