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Habits of Filices observed about the Malvern Hills, near the 

 Gorg^of the Eakaia Eiver, Canterbury, New Zealand. By T. H. 



Potts, Esq., F.L.S. 



[Bead June 15, 1876.] 



CyATHEACEjE. 



Cyatheacese is feebly represented by genera Hemitelia and Also* 



phila. 



Hemitelia 



H. Smithii. 



Not common ; trunk 4 to 5 feet high ; fronds 4 to 6 feet long. 



Alsophila. 



a. colensoi. 



On ranges up to 2000 feet above sea-level ; trunk prostrate, 

 about 3 inches in diameter, 4 to 5 feet long. 





HTMEKOPHTLLACEiE. 



Hymenophyllum. 



Several species of filmy ferns are to be found near banks of 

 streams on rocks, less commonly on trees. 



H. TUNBRIDGENSE. 



This cosmopolitan affects dry banks of mellow yellowish loam on 



small 



II. MULTIFIDUM. 



ground 



with 



^vith moss. 



H. JAVANICUM. 



Rare ; on damp almost 

 spray of falling water, often growing in moss with P. grammiti- 

 «** ; tufted, bright green, not shining ; stipes very broadly wiuged 

 to the base ; frond 8 to 9 inches high. 



H. POLYANTHOS. 



In this district the most abundant of the genus ; in damp wea- 

 ther diffusing a pleasant odour. On the ground, on rocks, roots, 

 ascending, for a few feet only, the stems of trees. Frond 2 to 8 

 inches high. . 



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