190 Tue Lire HISTORY or 
Haiti is the type locality for V. Zineata, but we have never 
seen a specimen of Vittaria, from Haiti or Santo Domingo. Spe- 
cimens were distributed from Berlin, determined by Kuhn as Z 
graminifolia var. filifolia collected by Hahn on Martinique. 
V. filifolia has been credited by Fée to Guadeloupe collected by 
L'Herminier, and Y. /ineata was collected on Trinidad by Fendler. 
A dwarf form of V. lineata also occurs in the Bahamas. Mr. 
Britton has collected sterile specimens of Y. Jilifolia on St. Kitts. 
HisrORY OF THE GAMETOPHYTE 
The statement has been made that the gametophyte of Vittaria 
lineata has not been described, and so far as we knew, the game- 
tophyte was unknown in all the other American species. Professor 
Underwood has called our attention to a copy of Lindenberg's mon- 
ograph of the Ricciaccae * which formerly belonged to Austin, in 
which Austin had written opposite the description of Riccia 
reticulata, “a species of Vittaria.” Lindenberg had classed it 
among the “Species dubiae.”  Riccia reticulata was described 
by Swartz + as having the fronds laciniate, glabrous and re- 
ticulate. He referred to it specimens from the Island of 
[New ?] Providence described by Dillenius | as Zichenoides gelati- 
nosus tenue reticulatum. Swartz§ stated that it grew on trees 
covered with mosses in the mountains 
it as follows : 
RICCIA ? RETICULATA. “ Frons membranacea, plana, difformis, 
lobata, laciniata, latitudine unciales, laciniis linearibus, saepe bipar- 
titis, pollicaribus, glabra, obscure viridis, tenuissi ticulat 
bs. Ob texturam teneriorem 
Lichenibus.” 
of Jamaica, and described 
Hepaticis conjungere malui quam 
The illustration given by Dillenius is simply an 
outline, but the figure and description given by Lindenberg agree 
exactly with no. 327 from St. Kitts, collected by Mr. Britton in 
1901, which he also took for a hepatic. It proves to be the 
gametophyte of a species of Vittaria, probably V. filifolia, the 
leaves of which were collected in another ravine but were not 
*J. B.W. Lio i AN 
CITUR Me nt 
+ Dillenius, Hist. Muse. r: 138. pl. r 
, ae * P^ 19. f. 21. 1741. 
¢ Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 3: 1883. 1806. = 
