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take for he says it is a small species with short fronds, and it is 
described in the Synopsis Filicum as two inches long, and 
Sodiro + says the leaves are 2-6 inches. Specimens labeled V. 
dimorpha collected by F. Müller in 1848-1855, at Orizaba, are in 
the Columbia University herbarium, but do not answer to the de- 
scription of this species. Fournier [ credits V. Zineata, V. grami- 
folia and V. scabrida to Mexico, and Fée $ lists V. filifolia from 
several Mexican localities and collectors. 
We have not studied the Central American species, but we 
find among the specimens distributed by J. Donnell Smith as V. 
lineata, that no. 811, collected by Turckheim in Guatemala is ۰ 
Jilifoliaand that no. 7489 collected by H. Pittier in Costa Rica, is 
probably V. graminifolia. 
Grisebach || records only one species, V. /ineata, from the 
West Indies, which he says occurs in Jamaica, St. Vincent and 
Barbadoes. Charles Wright collected in Cuba as no. 865, in 1856, 
two species, V. filifolia and V. lineata, which were distributed as 
one. No. 865, of his collection of 1865, is V. stipitata. Kunze Y 
records V. graminifolia from Cuba. 
V. Gardneriana has been collected in Puerto Rico by Blauner 
and Sintenis, and V. remota has also been credited to Puerto Rico. 
Fée** has reported V. filifolia from that Island and V. lineata was 
collected by Sintenis. 
Jenman ++ has described V. Zineata, V. stipitata, V. remota and 
V. intramarginalis from Jamaica: the last a new species closely 
allied to V. filifolia, judging by the description and specimens 
received from B. D. Gilbert; it has triangular spores, but the 
paraphyses have not been seen. V. remota is described as having 
the venation anastomosing once besides the normal marginal one; 
this does not agree with Fée's |] figures, in which the venation 
is oblique as in V. Gardneriana. 
T Sodiro, Crypt. Vasc. Quit. 423. 1893. 
1 Fournier, Miss, Scient. au Mex. et Am. Cent. 114. 1872. 
2 Fee, Mem. des Foug. 3: 15. 1852; 11, 13. 1866. 
|| Grisebach, Flora of the West Indies, 674. 1864. 
Y Kunze, Syn. Plant. Crypt. Poepp., Linnaea, 9: 76, 77. 1833- 
** Fée, Mem. 11: 13. 1866. 
tf Jenman, Syn. List of Jamaica Ferns. Bull, Bot. Dept. Jam. 4: 212. 1897. 
tt Fée, Mem. 7: 26. pl. jo. f. 1. 
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