Colenso. — On some Nezv Ferns. 401 



and in terminal pinnule a middle vein which is pinnate and 

 forked, 2 pairs (4) to each involucre. 



.Hai- Wooded district, Kumeroa, near the Eiver Manawatu. 



Obs. A neat species allied to A. fulvum, Eaoul, but differ- 

 ing from that species in its smaller size, bright-green thin 

 glabrous shining narrow finely cut and more stipitate pinnules, 

 large orbicular hyaline and flat involucres, largely-branched 

 compound venation, and its very hairy and scaly bright red- 

 brown stipe and rhachises. 



Order II. LYCOPODIACE^. 

 Genus 2. Lycopodium, Linn. 

 1. L. polycephalum, sp. nov. 



Plant (dried specimens) erect, stout, 9in.-10in. high, main 

 stem woody, as thick as a goose-quill, much and dichotomously 

 branched throughout ; branches erect, their tips (heads of 

 spikes) drooping recurved. Leaves very numerous, mostly 

 vertical adpressed, sometimes patent, j^in. long, subulate, 

 semiterete, acute, entire not keeled, smooth, shining, wavy, 

 inserted about six rows on all the stems and branches, close, 

 imbricate. Spikes terminal on all branches, 1-2-3 together, 

 subcylindrical, oblong-ovate, obtuse, sessile, sub -Jin. long, 

 pale yellowish-fawn colour; scales in about 8 rows, very close 

 and largely imbricate, xxjin. long, ovate-acuminate, rough on 

 outside, margins serrate, tip produced long entire acute ; 

 capsules suborbicular, white, shining narrower than scale. 



Hab. High land near East Cape ; 1894 : Mr. H. Hill. 



Obs. A species allied to L. densum and to L. ccrnuum, 

 particularly the latter, but differing from that species in several 

 characters — in smaller leaves that are vertical shining and 

 not keeled, spikes several together and not incurved, points 

 of scales not serrate, &c. 



Art. XLYIII. — An Account of the Finding of Two Australian 

 Plants, hitherto unnoticed, here in Neio Zealand. 



By W. Colenso, F.E.S., F.L.S. (Lond.), &c. 



[Read before the Haiokc's Bay Philosophical Institute, 12th November, 



1894.-] 



1. Erythrcea australis, Br. 



An erect glabrous annual, from under Gin. to l-|ft. high, 

 the branches few and not very spreading. Leases sessile, 

 ovate-oblong elliptical or lanceolate, mostly obtuse ; the lower 

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