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paleis rhizoraaticis conformibus, deinde tenues, pallescentes, plus 

 minusve paleacei, paleis tenuibus, longe et flexuose acuniinatis, 

 cum glandibus articulatis pallidis intermixtis. Frons anguste 

 ovato-lanceolata, longe acuminata, falcatula, ad 1-5 dm. longa et 

 5 cm. lata, facie antica fusco-viridi, postica pallido-viridi, baud 

 nitenti, infra pinnata, delude pinnatifida, gradatim breviter 

 lobata, apice subintegra; pititiis injimis subsessilibus, plus 

 minusve distantibus, oppositis vel suboppositis, obovatis, squar- 

 rosis vel deflexulis, ad 2 cm. longis et 1 cm. latis; pinnis mediis 

 approximatis, sessilibus ad decurrentibus, alternantibus, longi- 

 oribus (ad 3 cm. longis et 0-75 cm. latis), oblongo-lanceolatis, 

 supra gradatim suberecto-patentibus, paullulum sursum curva- 

 tis, lobis apicem versus gradatim abbreviatis, in summo apice 

 evanidis; pinnis et lobis omnibus (superioribus exceptis) plus 

 minusve crenato-lobatis, segmentis oblongo-rotundatis, apice 

 interdum crenulatis, segmento primo acroscopico evolutiori; 

 lobis frondis apicem versus subcrenulatis ad integris; rhachi 

 parce hirsuta, in superior! dimidio alata; pinnis et lobis penni- 

 nervatis, nervis ssepe indistinctis; faciebus et rhachi et costis 

 cum glandibus articulatis pra?ditis. Sori breves, in pinnarum et 

 loborum nervis, juxtacostales, stricti vel subarcuati; indiisio 

 membranaceo, pallido, margine crenulato vel subcristato, in- 

 trorsum aperienti. Texhira subcoriacea. 



Damp base of rock in The Rapids, Ellenborough River, the 

 Bulga, via Wingham: leg. W. W. Watts, April, 1915. 



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Notes and Records. 



1. Hymenophyllum peltatum (Poir.) Desv.; H. Wilsoni Hook.; 



JI. unilaterale Willd. 



This interesting fern was collected by Mr. J. L. Boorman, on 

 Barrington Tops, in January, 1916. Mr. Wilson published a 

 description, with an admirable figure, of the species in "English 

 Botany, Suppl.,t.2686"(1831 ), as Hymenophyllum Wilsoni Hook., 

 (Brit. Fl., i., 446, 1830). In Hooker and Baker's "Synopsis," 

 p. 67, it is made a variety, "/?, " of //. tunbridgense Sm., but a 

 note is added, '■'H. peltatzirn (Poir.) oldest name." Christenseni 

 also (Index) identifies H. Wilsoiii with II. peltatum (Foir.) Desv.^ 



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