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with simply pinnate pendent fronds six to eight feet long, 
growing on the trunks of palm trees. A spec‘es of 
Elaphoglossum (E. Herminieri) was remarkable for its 
long, pendent, ribbonlike fronds growing from a basal 
tuft of fulvous hairlike scales. Species of Vittaria resemb- 
ling tufts of grass grew on the limbs, and several species of — 
Campyloneurum were distinguishable by the transverse 
rows of sori dotting the lower surface of their lanceolate 
fronds. Asplenium serratum with enormous sim 
fronds, closely resembling Asplenium nidus, which I 
afterwards collected in Polynesia, was common on the 
limbs of trees, where it perched like huge birds’ nests. 2 
_ A simple-fronded species, first described from the — 
Isthmus, was Dictyoxyphium panamense, with the sori in 
a occidentale ale, Diplazium Satin the beautiful “silver” 
ie (Ceropteris calomel elanos), and J Adian tum lucidum, 
with simply pinnat te frond searing hat those of 
_ in water courses, with fronds similar to those of Tricho- 
oo 1 must ‘not fore to mention 1 Salpichlena solubitia! 
. A eececnaye ie: a es species with enorm 
