Anemia cicutaria Kunze

Anemia cicutaria Kunze ; Spreng. Syst. Veg. 4 : 31. 1827 ;
Linnaea 9 : 22. 1834.
Mohria intermedia J. Smith, lyond. Jour. Bot. 2 : 387. 1843.
Copiophyllum cicutarium. Klotzsch, I^innaea 18 : 527. 1844.
Ornithopteris cicutaria Underw. Mem. Torrey Club 12 : 15. 1902,
Anemia hipinnata Moore, Index Fil. cxvi. 1857. Not A. hipinnata Sw. 1806.
Rhizome short-creeping, densely clothed with short dark-brown hairs ; fronds dimorphous, dorsal, obscurely distichous, closely fasciculate, the stipes of the fertile ones easily surpassing the sterile fronds. Sterile fronds 6-15 cm. long, ascending or spreading; stipes filiform, 6-8.5 cm. long, flexuous or arcuate, stramineous; lamina deltoid to deltoid-ovate, 3-8.5 cm. long, 2.5-7 cm. broad, bipinnate, or, as to the lower pinnae, deeply tripinnatifid ; pinnae 3-7 pairs, alternate, contiguous or mostly apart, ascending (or the lowermost spreading), the middle and lower ones petiolate, subequilateral, deltoid to deltoid-ovate, obtuse, those above rhombic-ovate to oblong, finally confluent at the short obtuse apex ; pinnules of the basal pinnae 2-5 pairs, short-stalked or sessile, rhombic-ovate to rhombicoblong, unequally cuneate, the larger ones deeply pinnatifid into 1-3 ("4) pairs of oblique cuneate segments, these inciso-dentate at the obtuse apex ; pinnules and segments anadromous ; veins slightly elevated upon both surfaces ; leaf-tissue firmly membranous, opaque, slightly paler below, sparsely pilose upon both surfaces, copiously glandular below, sparingly so above. Fertile fronds 5-14 cm. long, the panicle one-third to nearly one-half as long as the slender stramineous or brownish-stramineous stipe ; pinnae distant, alternate, the lowermost up to 5 cm. long, long-stalked, the pinnules short, sessile, with marginate segments ; spores reticulate-striate.
Type locality : In crevices of rocks, along shaded river near the l^mbarcadero del Canimar,
Cuba.
Distribution : Cuba ; islands of Abaco, Andres, and New Providence, Bahamas; Yucatan.