Field notebooks : Bermuda, 1926-1929
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4-22-29 Firm with apices. Woodbarn growing on very ground. St. very scaly. Blades 1/2 ft long, pinnate. Pinnae ovatolate, about 3/4 x 1/2 in the long acuminate tip curved upward or even curved so it points backward. Rounded inequilateral base almost sessile. Dark green shining above, lighter shining below, glabrous. Margins scarcely undulate-dentate. Veins anastomosing so as to make very definite lorgne effect beneath x [glabrous above, beneath looks glabrous to eye but (20x) is sparsely covered with fine, long, sleep y brownish hairs]. Sori abundant scattered, not more than 1/2 mm. the indusia circular, peltate. If in MJC.P this is Dry Cyrtomium faleatum, Puel p 71 4-22-29 Stiponopsis floribunda, Bmnj p 287. BMJCPes Woodbarn in advanced bud. Scales as desc. X 4-22-29 Muehlenbeckia complexa, Mein. p 114 Woodbarn to ft. a trailing vine-like plant very slender v delicate "A maiden hair fern, common in Italian gardens says Mrs Wood. Veining not at all like maidenhair, just sort fern. To 2 x petioles. BMJC.P 848. 4-22-29 Casuarina Woodbarn tree Fernstitute C. is similar to Bermudians x/2 Mr Allen Smith in Dino Wood and 2