NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 191 



Mr. Whitelegge exhibited and communicated the following 

 Note upon three New South Wales Ferns not recorded in the 

 "Census of Australian Plants" : — 



(1). Diplazium japonicum, Thunb., is recorded from Illawarra 

 in Vol. vii. of the "Flora Australiensis," p. 750 (1878). At the 

 end of the very brief description occurs the following note, " N.S. 

 Wales, Illawarra, a single specimen in Herb. F. Mueller without 

 the collector's name, so possibly some mistake." The late Baron 

 von Mueller evidently regarded the record as erroneous, and 

 omitted it fi'om his Census of Australian Plants published in 

 1882, and also from the second edition of the same issued in 

 1889, notwithstanding the fact that Bailey had recorded the 

 plant from Nerang Creek on the southern border of Queensland 

 in the Synopsis of the Queensland Flora published in 1883 

 (p. 208). It is highly probable that the original specimen in the 

 Muellerian herbarium was correctly noted as to locality. A few 

 months ago I gathered several plants in the Illawarra district, 

 and I have since seen living specimens in cultivation from the 

 same region, but from a habitat much further south. 



(2). Lastrea aciimiiiata, Houlston & Moore, appears to be a new 

 record for New South Wales. I have gathered plants on the 

 south coast and also on the Blue Mountains. A variety is recorded 

 from Queensland, but there does not appear to be any mention 

 of the occurrence of the species in New South Wales, unless the 

 late Dr. Woolls' remarks (Contribution to the Flora of Australia, 

 p. 66, 1867) can be I'egarded as such. However it is not included 

 in his list at the end of the paper, nor in a subsequent list 

 published some years later. The plant is by no means rare, and 

 is frequently seen for sale in Sydney under a great variety of 

 names. It is a very hardy plant, and is much used for table 

 decoration in the restaurants of Sydney. 



(3). Aspidiiiin eumundi, Bailey. — I have lately received plants 

 of this species from the Richmond River District, collected by 

 the Rev. W. W. Watts. 



