134 AMERICAN FERN JoURNAL 
in all directions. In a forest on swampy soil, near the 
base of Mount Columbo, was found Dryopteris patens 
(Sw.) Ktze., while on the ground and at the base of trees 
near the coast east of Vivijagua, Campyloneurum phyl- — 
litidis (L.) Presl was collected in the mangrove formation. 
Upon climbing the Sierra de los Caballos there was 
found on trees at the top of the ridge, at an elevation of 
about one thousand feet, the widely distributed Poly- 
podium polypodioides (L.) Hitche. This fern is cla‘med 
to have been at one time quite abundant on the northern 
mountains of the island, but it has been assiduously col 
lected by the so-called “natives” for medicinal purposes 
and has apparently been all but exterminated there. In 
rather moist humus soil in the forest at the base of the 
antum villosum L. was found, with the rachis quite com 
- Spicuously brown-villous. ooo 
most of the species found in similar habitats in the north- 
ern part of the island near Nueva Gerona. Meniscium 
