740 THE P^LORA OF NORFOLK ISLAND, 



MARATTIACE^. 



51. Marattia fraxinea (J/, ekgans, Endl., Prod. Norf. 17). 



" The most remarkable object that arrested our attention was Afarattia 

 elegaus, a fern of great beauty, having fronds U feet in length, 7 feet of 

 which were destitute of branches; of these it had Sh pairs, which were again 

 branched, and clothed with leaflets, five inches long, and three-quarters of 

 an inch broad" (Backhouse, p. '272). 



I learnt that the Norfolk Island name (as also that of Pitcairn) 



for the plant is Neh-e (pronounced Neche-e, with a peculiar nasal 



sound, to imitate ba-a of a lamb). I did not think to ask the 



meaning of the allusion to the lamb, but the so-called Scythian 



or Tartarian lamb has since occurred to me. This lamb consists 



of the shaggy caudex of a fern with portions of the stipes for legs. 



See CihotiiLiii (Treasury of Botany) for a full account of this 



fabulous animal. Marattia would not make so good a lamb as 



Cibotium. 



OPHIOGLOSSACE^. 



52. Ophioglossum vulgatum, Linn. — Recorded as new by 

 Mueller (Journ. Bot. xxii., 290). 



h. Lycopodinae. 



1. Lycopodium densum, Labill. — Recorded in B.Fl. vii. 676. 



2. Tmesipteris tannensis, Bernh. {T. Forsteri, Endl., Prod. 

 Norf. 16; probably syn. with T. tanyiensis). — On tree-ferns. 



'3. PsiLOTUM triquetrdm, Sw., Fil. p. 187: Schk., Crypt, t. 165 b. 

 *_" On decayed trees in shaded woods" (A. Cunn. in Heward). 



ii. B n Y P H Y T A. 



a. Musci. 

 OKTHOTRICHEJE. 



1. Macro.mitkium prorepens, Hook. (Endl, Prod. Norf. 6, as 



Leiotheca). 



BRYE^:. 



2. Bryum angeiothecium, cm. (Hedwigia, 1898, 108). 



3. Bryum canariense, Brid. (Endl., Prod. Norf. 5). 



