Ruee: RANDOM NOTES ON BERMUDA FERNS’ 17 
of Walsingham, the fronds are often eight inches in 
length and not so heavily fruited. These specimens 
doubtless approach the variety ‘abiia nas named by 
Gilbert. At Fern Cave, a cave well named, on the 
estate of the German consul, I found specimens of an 
Adiantum which Dr. R. C. Benedict, who has kindly 
examined my Bermuda specimens, identified as A. 
tenerum Sw., a species not given in Gilbert’s valuable list. 
Another fern common about the city of Hamilton, on 
the walls and roadside cuts, wherever a particle of earth 
has lodged, is Pteris longifolia L. Wherever this plant 
has secured a footing in good rich soil at the base of 
some wall or similar — it. bears fronds fourteen — 
inches long or longer. 
_ The other ferns of the island seem confined for the most 
part to one of two places, the so-called marshes, in three 
of which I botanized, and the Walsingham tract. In ae 
oles about which the ferns grow. — 
Devonshire i is probably the largest. , a 
and acres in extent, is completely covered with a growth 
of ferns. Most abundant of all is our own cil 
_ of the variety frondosa Gray. Common also are the ch: 
_ fern, Woodwardia virginica (L.) Sm., the iad 
~ Osmunda regalis L., the brake, Pteridium caud tum (L.) 
Maxon, and Acrostichum. excelsum : Maxon. “This pod 
z was: _ found saringly 3 in tony and 
