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straight veinlet to the sinus ; but in the lobes of the upper 

 pinnaa the lower pair of veins are curved and barely meeting at 

 the sinus. Sori small, reddish, nearer costa than margin. 



Hab. Sides of streams, forests near Matamau, County of 

 Waipawa; 1882-83: W.C. 



Obs. I. This fern is nearly allied to P. (G.) pennigerum, 

 Forst., with which, at first sight, it is likely to be confounded 

 and taken for a small plant of that species ; but a close examina- 

 tion reveals its difference in several characters — viz., the very 

 much smaller size, narrower and slenderer in all its parts, its 

 excessive hairiness, with peculiar large scales scattered on its 

 frond, and the lobes ciliated ; the pinnae distant, very narrow 

 and largely petiolate, with only the lowest veinlet of the lobes 

 uniting, and the basal lobes large and pinnatifid with bipinnate 

 veins. By some botanists, however, it may be considered as 

 merely a variety of P. pennigerum, like two others (varieties) I 

 have described.* 



II. This fern is rather scarce, I having met with it in 

 profusion in only one spot, where, however, were several low 

 arborescent plants of it growing together, forming a little thicket 

 or tangled brake, and certainly looking very pretty and neat. 



Art. XXIX. — On new Indigenous Cryptogams, of the Orders 

 Lycopodiaceas, Musci, and Hepaticae. 



By W. Colenso, F.R.S., F.L.S., Land., etc. 

 [Read before the Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute, \lth October, 1887.] 



Order II.— LYCOPODIACEiE. 



Genus 2. Lycopodium, Linn. 



§ III. Leaves imbricated all round the stem. Spikes terete, 



peduncled. 



1. L. scopulosum, sp. nov. 



Plant small, erect, 2^-3 inches high, dichotomously branched, 

 branches spreading. Main stem wiry, slender, rigid, £ inch 

 long, bare ; forked from underground (and without roots to 

 specimens), the two lower branches also bare below for about £ 

 inch each, twice forked above, each of the foikings again divided 

 into 4 equal branchlets, sub 1 inch long, cylindrical and densely 

 leafy throughout. Leaves somewhat sexfariously disposed, 



* Vars. luimiltonii, and giganteum, "Trans. N.Z. Inst," vol. xiv., 

 p. 338, 339. 



