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Dryopteris D. patens, D. thelypleris, D. Speluncae, D. bermudiana. 



Nephrolepis TV. exaltata. 



Salvinia A species not yet determined but not endemic. It is 



matched in the herbarium here by specimens from Cen- 

 tral America. 



Psilotum P. nudum. 



Of the above species, four, Osmunda regalis, Osmunda cin- 

 namomea, Anchistea virginica and Dryopteris thelypteris occur 

 also in the northeastern United States. Four others, Dry- 

 opteris bermudiana, Dryopteris Speluncae, Diplazium Laffanianum, 

 and Adiantum helium, have been considered endemic. Adiantum 

 helium, however, is now reported by Christensen* from Guiana 

 also. Six additional species, not included in the above list, 

 have been reported from Bermuda, but are not represented by 

 specimens in the garden herbarium. Possibly some of these 

 were introduced and have since disappeared. One of them, 

 Adiantum capillus-veneris, is known to have been introduced 

 along with other plants by Governor Lefroy, and that some of 

 these foreign residents still linger would appear from the recent 

 collection there, by Mr. Harold G. Rugg, of a single sterile 

 frond of what is probably an East Indian species of Phymatodes. 



Dr. W. A. Murrill reported that the fungi thus far collected 

 in the Bermudas have been mostly parasitic forms on living 

 leaves and stems such as rusts and smuts and various leaf-spots, or 

 saprophytic forms on dead wood, such as Xylaria and Hypo xy Ion. 

 Very few gill-fungi or polypores are known from the islands. 

 Our collections contain Fomes Sagraeanus (Mont.) Murrill, 

 known also from southern Florida, Cuba and Colombia; and 

 an undescribed species of Grifola just brought back by Dr. 

 Britton which is endemic so far as known and has the peculiarity 

 of growing in grass tufts while most of the species of the genus 

 grow on the roots of living oak trees. 



Dr. B. O. Dodge spoke of the fungi collected by Mrs. Dodge 

 and himself during a week in August in 191 1. About 50 species 

 were found. Among these were 8 species of slime moulds, 14 

 species of coprophilous fungi, a few species of Discomycetes and 

 other fleshy fungi. Ascophanus sarcohius and Xylaria arbuscula 

 were among the rarer species collected. 



* Index, 23, 1905. 



