: =. wide and is most, — with the 2 long hee 
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them into the larger rivers. To get into these and spend 
a day hunting for ferns and mosses is a joy and delight. 
Usually it necessitates a long horseback ride and some 
wading and scrambling after dismounting, with the 
occasional recompense of a bath in some cool, fascinating _ 
pool. The spleenworts are more or less common in these 
damp ravines; Aspleniwm dentatum occurs on the rocky 
ledges as it does at Miami, Florida, and the more delicate 
and slender A. monteverdense Hook. resembles A. myrio- 
phyllum as it grows in Florida. A. cuneatum is also fairly 
abundant in wet ravines and A. jformosum occurs in the — 
rocky beds of streams. A few small and attractive 
species of Pteris grew also on the cliffs with the spleen-_ 
worts, Pteris mutilata on mossy rocks, on shady cliffs, — 
or at the mouth of caves. Doryopteris palmata is also” 
abundant near the falls. The very common silver fern. 
Ceropteris (Gymnogramme) calomelanos is here also, tall 
and luxuriant. But the greatest find of the day is always 
the tree ferns, for on their trunks not only do various 
Saks the most surprising paperiente is to find an 
Anemia, A. Underwoodiana, growing in crevices of rocks 
of Cuba, Florida, and the Bahamas, A. adiantifolia, is 
found usually on dry rocks and cliffs. Many of the 
broad, entire-leaved ferns are also the favorite homes 0 
: — hepatics with a peculiar odor, also of mosses 
tted lichens. serratum L. 
Abinta nest fern,” grows to be three feet high an 
