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POLYPODIACE^. 



Dryopteris setigera (BL), 0. Ktze. 



I have a specimen in which the costa of one of the primary pinnae divides. 

 Length from rhachis to fork, 6-7 cm. ; of the two branches of the pinna, 

 li cm. and 17 cm. 



Dry forest, swamp (a few plants, fronds 50 cm. long), near fumaroles 

 (crater), Sunday Island. 



Norfolk Island, Australia, Polynesia, Malaya. 



Dryopteris parasitica (L.), 0. Ktze. 



Dry forest, swamp (a few plants), Ageraturn meadow, near fumaroles 

 (crater), Sunday Island. 



Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island, New Zealand, Australia, Tonga, 

 tropics. 



Dryopteris glabella (A. Cunn), C. Chr. 



Rhizome small, short, tufted ; fronds perfectly glabrous ; lower basal 

 secondary pinnae of lowest primary pinnae usually much longer than the rest. 

 Forest, Sunday Island. 

 New Zealand, Australia, Polynesia. 



Polystichum aristatum (Sw.), Pr. 



Dry forest, swamp, pohutukawa forest (crater), Sunday Island. 

 Norfolk Island, Australia, Tonga, tropics. 



Nephrolepis exaltata (L.), Schott, 



Dry forest (Denham Bay), on warm ground near fumaroles (Denham 

 Bay, crater), Sunday Island. 

 Australia, Tonga, tropics. 



Nephrolepis cordifolia (L.), Pr. 



Forest, cliffs (crater), pohutukawa forest (crater), Sunday Island. 

 Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island, New Zealand, Australia, Polynesia, 

 tropics. 



Diplazium japonicum (Thbg.), Bedd. 



Forest, Sunday Island. 



Norfolk Island, New Zealand, Fiji, tropics. 



Asplenium caudatum, Forst. f. 



Forest, Sunday Island. 

 Polynesia, tropics. 



Asplenium obtusatum, Forst. f. 



Coastal rocks, Sunday Island. Herald Islets. Cliffs, Macauley Island. 

 French Rock. 



Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island, New Zealand, Australia, Polynesia, 

 islands of the Southern Ocean. 



Asplenium lucidum, Forst. f. 



Dry forest, Sunday Island. Scrub, Meyer Island. Ravines in Macauley 

 Island. 



Lord Howe Island, New Zealand, Australia, Polynesia. 



