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rsejjarated his species from P. semialatum , which was published 

 about 40 years previously, on account of the broad wing on the 

 second glurae, or whether R. Brown's grass was unknown to him. 



Sir J. D. Hooker mentions the gi-ass in the " Flora of British 

 India," under the name of Axonopus seniinlatiis; but, though he 

 •quotes Fauicuni viaticiim Griff., as a synonym, he describes the 

 margins of the second glume as " villous," and not as winged. In 

 bis Key to the genera of Indian grasses, he separates Axonopus 

 from Panicnni on account of the " broadl}' fimbriate marginal 

 •nerves of the second glurae and the deeply cleft palea of the third 

 glume," laying special stress on tlie cleft palea (see Hooker's 

 remark on the genus Axonopus, Fl. Br. Ind. vii., p. 64). 



The small cleft palea is present in all Australian specimens we 

 .have examined, but Beutham omits to mention the character. 



F. M. Bailey adopts the name Axonopus semialatus Hook., in 

 ibis "Queensland Flora," but also describes the second glume as 

 "fringed on each side," without mentioning winged glumes; it 

 seems that the form with winged glumes has not been observed 

 lin Australia, so far, in any other locality except Warialda. 



FILICES. 



PoLYPODiUM cucuLLATUM Nees et Bl. New for Australia. 



Herberton district, Queensland(R. F. Waller; 1908). 



This curious little fern has a great range, from Ceylon over the 

 Malayan Archipelago, the Phili[)pines, Samoa, Fiji, New Cale- 

 donia, (fee, but it has not been previously recorded from Aus- 

 tralia. Mr. Waller writes : " found growing on rocks at one 

 .place only, on the Dividing Range between Evelyn Scrub and 

 coastal waters." 



PoLYPODiUM Wallkri, sp.nov. 



Herberton District, Queensland; at an altitude of about 3,500 

 feet(R. F. Waller; 1909). 



A small tufted epiphytic fern, glabrous except the broad linear- 

 Janceolate pale brown scales at the base of the very short stipes. 

 Fronds 1 to rarely 2 inches long, the largest somewhat above i 



