M.\\<>.\ STUDIES OF rROPICAL AMERICAN FE1 193 



Province oi Pinab del Rio: Near Pinar del Rio, Palm* R U, 

 83; Shafer 388; In mountains north of San Diego de log Bafios, 

 Palmer d Riley 510, -",71 ; Los Palacios, Van Hermann 3291. 

 Provinci hi Matanzas: Vicinity of Madruga, Britton, Brit tun d 



shnfi r G05. 

 Isle oi Pines : I. A. Taylur 9. 

 .1 \ \i \n a : 



Mount Hernion, near Chepstow, Moore. 

 Phymatodes nematorhizon 1 1 >. < '. Baton) Cnderw. in herb. 

 Polypodium nematorhizon I >. < '. Baton, Bot. Gaz. 3: 90. 1878. 



This rare si ies, founded on Fendler's no. 7.".. from Trinidad, and ki 



hitherto only from that island, has recently been collected on the island of 

 Margarita, Venezuela, by Mr. .F. R. Johnston (no. 147) at an altitude of OOU 

 meters. 'I' lie specimens, which agree perfectly with tin- types, were distribut< 

 Polypodium lanceolatum L. 



Polypodium kalbreyeri Baker, Timehri II. 5: 215. 1886; Trans. Linn. So.-. II. 

 Bot 2: 291. 1887. 

 Polypodium longipes Fee, Crypt. Vase. BrSs. 2: 53. pi. 05. f. 3. i s 7i' 7:;. not 



Link. 1850. 

 Polypodium transient Lindm. Ark. Bot. 1: 235. /</. //. /. 7. i903. 

 The type of Fee's /'. longipes was from Brazil {Glaziou 1414). I >r. landman 

 refers here also Mosen's no. 3535, redescribing the species under a new nam*' 

 (P. transiens) supposed to l»«- necessary on account of Fee's homonyn. Guiana 

 specimens in the Jenman herbarium^ New York, however, show that Baker's 

 P. kaloreyeri, founded in the interim on specimens from Guiana and New 

 Granada, is the same. 



Dr. Chrisl has reported the specie-; recently from Costa Rica on om 

 WerckKi's specimens without definite locality, and the following specimei 

 lected by the writer also agrees perfectly with the South American material: 

 (in tree trunks, vicinity of La Palma, Costa Rica, altitude 1450-1550 nil 

 May 1906, Maxon 466. 



Polystichum solitarium (Maxon) Cnderw. in herb. 



Polystichum munitum solitarium .Maxon. Fern Bull. 11: .">'.». L903. 



Professor Underwood was strongly of the opinion that this form from 

 Guadelupe Island off the coast <»f Lower California is worthy of specific rank, 

 on the strength of the characters pointed out in the original description, v 

 additional specimens have been seen and the species is apparently confined to 

 Guadelupe island. It is allied also to p. falcinellum of Madeira, 



Tectaria martinicensis (Spreng.) .Maxon. 



Ispidium martinicens( Spreng. Anleit. Kennt. Gewiichse ed. 1. 3: 133. 



Vspidium madrophyllum Sw. Syn. Fil. 4.">. 239. 1806. 



Sagenia macrophylla Moore, End. Fil. xxxvi. lv~>7. 



Sephrodium macrophyllum Baker, in Hook. & Baker, Syn. Fil. 300. l^;7. 



Common in the West Indies: apparently less so in Central and South 

 America. Sprengel cites riumier's excellent plate 145 as does also Swartz, 

 who accredits the name to " Rudolphi, Bemerk. e Reise 2 p. 103. I x 

 work unknown to the writer. 



'•'Lull. Herb. Boiss II. 4: 1103. 1904, as /'. lungip 



