I'.U »NTRIBUnON8 PBOBI THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



la plantaginea < Jacq. > Maxon. 

 Polgpodium plantaffineum Jacq. Ooll. Bot. 2: 104. /</. ..'. f. I. I7 ss . 



Hum ptantagineum Griseb. Abb, K5n, Gesell. Wlss, Qtitt. 7: 286, 1 V .~7. 

 DryotnenU plantaginea J. Sm. Bot, Voy. Herald 229. 1854. 

 PodopeltU plantaginea Fee, Gen. PH. 9. \<> { > 52. 

 r><itii miiim plantaffineum Fount. Bull. Boc. Bot Prance H>: 264. i s 7_\ 

 Appears to differ from the more typical species of Tectaria only In its simple 

 fronds. There are several well marked Forms which possibly tir-.-rvr t.. rank 

 stincl species. 



ria pnrdiaei (Jenman) Maxon. 

 Aspidium purdiaci Jenman, Gard. Chron. IN. 22: 282. i s '.»7. 

 Kephrodium Sherrington Jenman, Journ. Bot 2r>: 09. 1887. Not Vephrodium 



■iii Jenman, i s 7:». 

 ispidium psatnmisornm C. Chr. End. Pil. 89. 1905. 



To this Bpecies may be referred Miller and Johnston's no. 158 and John- 



s do. 17.:. both from Margarita Island, Venezuela. The relationship is 



clearly with Tectaria martinieensis. The types of both Aspidium purdiaei and 



Vvphrodium shi rringiai were from Trinidad. A. psammisornm was proposed 



;i - ; i change of name for i be latter. 



NEW SPECIES IN SEVERAL GENERA. 



Asplenium Barcodes Maxon, sp. DOV, PLAT! LVI, PlOUR] •*'.. 



Fronds numerous, 12 to 1~>. borne In a perfect crown: rhizome (mostly sub- 

 terranean) Bucculent, erect, 10 cm. and more high (incomplete), about 3 cm. 

 in dia ter, at the exposed apex very thickly clothed with narrowly trian- 

 gular long-attenuate Blightly lustrous "mummy brown" scales, 8 to 10 mm. 

 long, the margins entire or by rupture Blightly lacerate: Btipe stent. 20 cm. 

 long, Bulcate and dark greenish brown in drying, toward the base beset with 

 very narrow brownish scales: lamina oblong, !<) cm. long, at the middle 15 

 to i (- » cm, broad, somewhat reduced below; rachis similar to the Btipe but 

 narrowly alate, flattened < in drying); pinna' coriaceous (carnose In the living 

 plant), opaque, about 11 pairs, opposite or subopposite, the lowermost pair 

 borne at an angle of about 15° and distant 5 cm. from the second, middle 

 ones divergent at a greater angle and about 2 cm. apart, upper ones gradually 

 smaller but not greatly reduced, giving rise abruptly to a petiolate terminal 

 pinna of similar form; characteristic middle pinna? 9 cm. long, 1 > cm. 

 broad, nearly straight (sometimes either falcate or slightly decurved), lanceo- 

 late, petiolate, at the base unequal, rounded truncate on the superior side, 

 deeply excised below, the margins lightly, Irregularly, and obliquely crenate, 

 more deeply crenate-serrate toward the acute apex; under Burface (as well 

 as the rachis) Bparsely covered with deciduous tortuose skeleton-like dark 

 brown scales, these filiform from a broad substellate base; veins concealed, 

 emerging at an angle of about b" . curved, the basal ones 2 or •"> times forked. 

 the others mostly once forked: sorl about p; to I s pairs, nearer the costa 

 than the margin, borne on the anterior branch at or near its point of origin; 

 Indusin firm, whitish, broadly elliptical. 1.5 to 5.5 mm. long, 1.5 to L.75 mm. 

 broad: sporangia cinnamon-brown, long-pedicellate, naked. 



Type in the I'. S. National Herbarium, no. 523133, collected at edge of rocky 

 Forest near the summit of Ihe I'a ra Hones of I .a I'erla. north of Jaguey, Vateras. 

 province Of Oriente, Cuba, altitude about 586 meters, by William R. Maxou 

 (no. 1390), May 2, 1907. 



The following additional specimens may be cited: 



Cuba: Near .Mont.- Verde, .January to July, L850, Wright 845 (E) : 

 "Summit Of Nimanima. on rocks," 1856-1857, Wright s l"' (B) ; without 



