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_ Aerostichum inequalifolium, n. sp. — Rootstock thick as a 
quill or less, several inches long, Sonueniol densely clothed with 
dark chestnut- ooonren scales having p paler margins,  Stipites 
pag erect, 2— in. long, rather freely clothed at first 
with spreading, RES 89 brown, but very deciduous scales. Fronds 
oa. oS lanceolate, tapering equally at the apex and base, 
4-10 in. long, 4-13 in. wide, ee eous, the veins free, forked from 
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mediate between A. simplex and A. chartaceum, and beari g about 
the same relation to the latter that A. . conforme does to A, latifolina. 
A, (E eran Herminieri 
A. (Exapoctossum) viridifolium, n.sp. — Rootstock short, 
rather stout, oblique or decambeot densely clothed with snail 
ferruginous linear scales. Stipites subtufted, erect, stramineous, 
Fronds linear-lanceolate, in. long 
ig in. wide, tapering both up and down, but more so downwards 
and passing insensibly into the petiole; the apex pointed, but 
obtuse; margins even or repand. Surfaces meant: but with laxly 
scattered very minute peltate scales over the under side. Texture 
coriaceous. Colour bright green. Veins fine, close, once forked, 
nearly concealed. Fertile fronds much narrower, nearly or quite 
as long, on stipites vie as long. — This comes nearest to A. 
the fronds. The petioles are sai at first, but pot become quite 
naked. The midrib is prominent beneath, channelled above, and, 
with the petioles, straw-colour whe 
Selaginella caribensis, n. sp. —Fronds prostrate, vee delicate, 
1-2 in. long, usually leafy to the base, the shorter simple, the 
longer with short asernae mostly distant Se a which are 
1-6 1. long by 1-141. wide over the leaves. Lateral leaves con- 
ac b- 
ae the outer side eae than the Sag e margins 7 
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Journat or Borany.—Vot. 24. ‘[Serr., 1886.] T 
