TAB. CXCVII. 
HYMENOPHYLLUM NITENS. 
FILICES.—GvnATEx. Br.  PorvropracEm. Kaulf.  Fzirrozs verme. Willd. 
GrzN. CHag. HYMENOPHYLLUM, Sm. $ori marginales. Capsule sessiles, receptaculo 
communi cylindraceo insertz, intra Znvolutrum bivalve, textura frondis, valvis planis, exterius 
liberis. Zr. | 
HyMENOPHYLLUM 7ifens; frondibus tripinnatifidis lanceolatis glabris, laciniis linearibus obtusis 
subemarginatis integris, involucris terminalibus, valvis oblate orbicularibus. Zr. 
Hymenophyllum nitens. Brown, Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p.159. ispreng. Syst. P'eset. v. 4. p.131. 
Has. In insula Diemen. Browaz. In Nova Zealandia. Dom. Menzies. 
Caudex repens, gracilis, flexuosus, inferne radicosus. : 
Stpes subdigitalis, filiformis, fuscus, nudus, glaber. 
Frons late ovato-lanceolata, superne attenuata, tripinnatifida (inferne pinnata, pinnis bipinnatifidis) ; pinnis vel seg- 
mentis primariis remotiusculis, circumscriptione late ovatis acutis, secundariis approximatis, etiam imbricatis, 
ultimis seu laciniis linearibus obtusis, glabris, nitidis, costatis, compacte reticulatis, integerrimis, costatis, costa 
infra apices obliterata. 
Color totius plantee, siccitate, fuscus. 
Jwvolucra terminalia, solitaria, obovata, basi cuneata immersa, bilabiata; labiis rotundatis, integerrimis. 
Receptaculum inclusum, infra apicem capsuliferum. 
Capsule vt in plerisque hujusce generis. 
Semina trigona, pellucida. 
Fig. 1l. Portio frondis fructifera. £2. Involucrum ad apicem lacinime. f. 3. Receptaculum cum capsulis. 
f. 4. Semina:—magn. auct. 
The specimens here figured are communicated by our liberal friend A. Menzies, Esq., under the 
name now given, and were gathered by him in New Zealand. 
