The Reverend Lansdown Guilding sent me some ex . 
cellent specimens from the Island of St Vincent's, where they 
grow upon the ground in moist and shady situations, and al- 
ways either bearing offspring at the extremity of the frond, or 
having within the notch at the point a scaly bulb, which en- 
closes the gemma. 
Accurately as this fern is figured and described both by 
Plumieu and Willdenow, it is singular that neither of 
. them should have spoken of this remarkable property ; both, 
however, have figured the notch at the extremity, and the for- 
mer author has not omitted to represent the scaly bud within 
it. 
The plant becomes of a dingy blackish-green when dried. 
Fig. 1. Portion of the frond, to shew the reticulations, and the situation of 
the sori. Fig. 2. Portion of a ckister of capsules and seeds All more or 
less magnified. 
