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basal pair, which are largest, serrate; rachis stramineous, naked; veins 

 simple, 8-lU to a side; sori submarginal, exposed or half covered by 

 the reflexed edge ; involucres pale. — 81. t. 49. fig. 1. — Aspidium, Swartz. 

 Amauropelta, Kze. 



Infrequent at 4,000-5,000 ft. altitude. Resembling somewhat some 

 of the forms of the preceding, but distinguished by the distinctly sub- 

 marginal sori. In my specimen the pinnae are alternate, and the rachis 

 is rounded and muricate beneath. The segments are nearly an equal 

 width from base to apex, and the margins are subcrenulate and reflexed 

 on to the sori. 



12. N. Sheringii, Jenm. — Rootstock stout, erect, often a span or 

 more high, stipites many, caespitose, erect, 4-l0 in. 1. strong, fibrillose, 

 dark and paleaceous at the base ; fronds erect, ample, bipinnatifid, 

 3-4£ ft. 1. 1-lf ft. w. reduced at the base to distant segments or mere 

 glands ; pinnae very numerous, distant at the base, contiguous, above, 

 spreading nearly horizontally, opposite, or contiguously alternate, 6-1 

 in. 1. in. b., sessile, with a strong gland at the base beneath, 



pinnatifid, almost to the costse ; segments linear, f-lj in. 1. \\ li. w. 

 acute or blunted, crenate, serrate, lobed or even pinnatifid with a 

 rounded sinus and their own width, more or less, between them, 

 slightly dilated at the connected bases ; rachis strong, sub-angular, 

 channelled, glandulose puberulous, stramineous or brown ; above, costae 

 stramineous, channelled, finely ciliate ; veins pellucid, simple, forked, or 

 pinnate in the pinnatifid pinnulae, 16-20 (or 25) to a side ; sori medial ; 

 involucres pale, puberulous- glandulose, enclosing the sori at first. — 

 Journ. Bot. vol. 8. p. 261. 



Common in open places among the Port Royal and Portland moun- 

 tains at 2,000-4,000ft. alt.. This is probably a variety of Sprengelii, 

 tending to a tripinnate state. The two plants are however suflici- 

 ciently distinct. The pinnae do not taper from the base outwards as 

 in that species, but widen rather above the base. It rivals even 

 Jenmani and resin o-fcetidum in size, and the plants form large masses, 

 several growing together, standing 4-5 ft. high. The segments are 

 generally of irregular length and the space between them varies. — 

 Endemic. 



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