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Bureau of Science and in my own herbarium. These specimens 
go back to collectors as old as Gaudichaud, and include a con- 
siderable number collected and determined by Hillebrand him- 
self. Of recent collections, we have one sent in exchange by 
the Bishop Museum to the Bureau of Science; a collection made 
by H. M. Curran, then of the Forestry Bureau of this Govern- 
ment, during a visit to the Hawaiian Islands; a few specimens 
collected by Doctor Bartsch of the United States Bureau of 
Fisheries ; a collection recently sent to me by the Hawaiian Board 
of Forestry, and determined at the same time as the Faurie 
collection; and the plants which I have been able to collect on 
two personal visits to the mountains near Honolulu. In the 
older collections, I have fortunately had an especially large rep- 
resentation of species of Asplenium, sent to me by the courtesy 
of the Royal Botanic Garden at Berlin. Another evidence of 
the quality of the Faurie collection is furnished by the fact, that, 
among all the other recent collections in my possession, there 
is only one fern, the assignment of which to an old and recognized 
species is even doubtful. 
In this collection there appear three cosmopolitan ferns not 
hitherto collected in Hawaii. These are: 
ATHYRIUM ESCULENTUM (Retz.) Copel., Kauai. 
ADIANTUM CUNEATUM L. & F., Faurie No. 154, Kauai, Kealea. 
PTERIS LONGI FOLIA L., Faurie No. 45, Maui, Wailiku. 
The descriptions of the new species, and the other changes 
of name which seem to be called for, are as follows : 
ATHYRIUM MARGINALE (Hilleb.) Copel. comb. nov. 
Asplenium marginale Hilleb. Flora Hawaii (1888) 613. 
Diplazium, C. Chr. Index Filicum (1905) 235. 
Faurie No. 291, Oahu, Punaluu, Alt. 800 m. 
ATHYRIUM M AUIANUM Copel. sp. nov. 
Rhizomate verosimiliter erecto, apice paleis castaneis (baud 
nigris) nitidis lanceolatis ca. 6 mm longis minute striatis integris 
vestito ; stipite 35 cm alto, fusco, glabro ; fronde “polystichoidea,” 
50-60 cm alta, 25-30 cm lata, acuminata ; pinnis brevi-stipitatis, 
infimis quam sequentibus paullo longioribus, usque ad 20 cm 
longis, 3 cm latis, acuminatis, £ ad costam pinnatifidis, infimis 
solummodo rhachin versus angustatis, aliis e basi truncato vel 
subcordato sensim angustatis ; segmentis acroscopicis quam basis- 
copicis ubique longioribus, oblongis, obtusis, serrulatis, mem- 
branaceis, glabris, sinubus inter lobos angustis; venis sat re- 
motis, simplicibus, in dentes desinientibus et ibidem saepe fal- 
catis; soris medialibus, brevibus, latis; indusio angusto. 
