We discovered here, and in the valley of Caripe, five new kinds of arborescent ferns.

The hills by which the convent is backed, are crowned with palm-trees and arborescent ferns.

We entered on a country studded with forests, and visited a convent surrounded by palm-trees and arborescent ferns.

In proportion as we descended the mountain of Santa Maria, we saw the arborescent ferns diminish, and the number of palm-trees increase.

Behind us rose a dark and forbidding wood of giant arborescent ferns intermingled with the commoner types of a primeval tropical forest.

Now the iron beast, consuming its ration of coal, is really browsing the ancient foliage of arborescent ferns in which solar energy has accumulated.

Among these plants, peculiar to the fine region of the arborescent ferns,* (* Called by the inhabitants of the country Region de los helechos.)

Arborescent Ferns on a Mountain Road.