Among the guests at the hotel was an English lady who, with her husband, frequently went driving with an intelligent old darky for driver (there are still more carriages and horses than automobiles in Jamaica), and often she brought me some treasure. Once it was a huge frond of Dennstaedtia rubiginosa, the ternate pinnae having a spread of 54 inches. The whole frond before the stem was cut must have stood four or five feet high. Another time it was a frond of Alsophila almost as large, also ternate, the thick texture of the upward rounding pinnae suggesting more a palm than a fern. Others also brought wayside specimens from more distant counties-the Star of Bethlehem, Hemionitis palmata, the underside of the fertile leaves protected by delicate red-brown hairs; the two silver ferns, Pityrogramma tartarea and P. caltonelanos; the gold ferns, Pityrogramma sulphurea and P. chrysophylla. In the lovely tropical garden of an American friend I found Pteris serrulata, Nephrolepis pectinata, Dennstaedtia rubiginosa and Cheilanthes microphylla, and in another garden a long belt of Fern, Dryopteris normalis, which at one time had been mingled with silver fern, but all of that had been crowded out by the Pepper Fern. I was also able through the kindness of a friend to purchase a collection of small ferns brought from the higher mountains to be used commercially for decorating candle-shades, handkerchief boxes, and the like. When covered with the thin inner bark of the lace tree, which resembles a fine net, these frail-looking objects are said to last a long time. In this collection were some of the filmies-Hymenophyllum fucoides, H. splendens, Trichomanes accedens, and T. rigidum-Asplenium fragrans, and several others. 86