97 
THE FERNS OF TRINIDAD. 
By G. 8. Jenman, F.L.8., Government Botanist, Demerara. 
My friend Mr. Sherring lately submitted to me for 
determination the colleotii of ferns he made i 
h 
mined to merge my Jamaica bene am into one of the whole 
of a British West Indies ana ajority of a 
ole of this range— 
Jamaica species covering the 
sbtiniets = f the Trinidad <i which I herewith waists 
The writings I have consulted are:—Eaton’s determination of 
Fendler’s ec leotion of Trinidad ferns in the eae Gazette,’ 
Nov., 1878; Hooker and Baker’s ‘Synopsis Filicum’; Fée’s 
CHistoir re des Fougéres des Antilles’ ; and Grisabaai s | Pore of 
the British West Indian Islands.’ Mr. Baker has been good ae 
dler’ 
other principal islands. 
of the satan continental flora, from 
by a few miles. 
Indies. Like m 
and valleys, to 8012 ft. 
Hymenophyllum polyanthos 
artz. 
a. Patou Swartz. 
H. ciliatum Swa 
— panetatum Poir. 
2. ae 
T. Ankersii (eee var. T. 
achypus Kze. 
T. pinnatum Hedw. 
Journat or Borany.—Vot- 25. 
Trichomanes spicatum Hedw. 
. elegans Sate tdge. 
T. sinuosu ich. 
: Kaulfussii Hook. & Grev. 
< oh a L. var. T. pellucens 
-. eee Sw. 
7; Bancroftii Hook. & Grev. 
v1.0.8: 
ri (2e. 
Alsophila sagittifolia Hook. 
Moen, 1887.] H 
