BY W. W. WATTS. 



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biserrata facile distinguitur pinnis utrinqiie sed prjeeipue supra 

 paleis albis dispersis latioribus fimbriatis et piliformibus inter- 

 mixtis instructis, rbachis paleis piliformibus appressis densis sub- 

 lanuginosa, soris submargiiialibus, pinnis basi superne auricula- 

 tis, aurieulis angustis ereetis." 



N. exaltata{Tj.) and N. acutifoliaCDesv.) I did not find, though 

 I understand that the latter is plentiful near Cairns. 



H u M A T A Cav. 



H. REPENs(L. fil,)Diels; Davallia pedata Sm 

 Frenchman's Creek (Second Falls); July, 1913. 



Davallia Sm. 

 D. DENTicULATA(Burm.)Mett. ; D. elegans Sw. 

 Rocky Hill Kuranda; July- Aug., 1913. 

 D. PYXiDATA Cav. 

 Rocky Hill, Kuranda; July, 1913. 



MiCROLEPiA Presl. 



M. sPELUNCiE(L.) Moore. 

 Stoney Creek, near Cairns; July, 1913. 



ScHizoLOMA Gaud. 

 S. ensifolium(Sw.) J. Sm.; Lindsaya Sw. et al. 



Hillside, track to Coffee Plantation, Kuranda; July- Aug., 1913. 

 Very plentiful, and in the most varied forms. 



This species is so extremely variable, that the attempt to 

 minutely subdivide it into a number of varieties and forms would 

 appear to be of doubtful value. Domin has subjected the material 

 (Asiatic and Australian) in the Kew Herbarium, as well as that 

 collected by himself in North Queensland, to the most careful and 

 painstaking scrutiny, and has set up the varieties (for Australia) 

 normale, heterophyllum {Lindsaya heterophylla Dryand.) (with 

 forms rhomboideum and angustipinnnm), medium (Lindscea 

 media R Br.), intercedens var.nov., and Fraseri {Lindscea Fraseri 

 Hook). While appreciating Dr. Domin's painstaking investiga- 

 tions, and attaching great weight to his opinion, my own experi- 



