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frond, but on some two or three, then giving a more truncate 

 appearance to the frond. Indusium sunk in the frond, attenuated 

 towards the base, the mouth broad, spreading. Receptacle 

 slightly exserted. On logs and tree trunks, Maroochie, ( Yandina) 

 situated about 80 miles from Brisbane on the Northern Eoad. 



POLYPODIUM PALLIDUM, n. S. 



RMzoma breve liorizontale, crassicm, squamulis 2}^^^i^is nitentihus 

 indutum; frondihia V ad 4' alt. hi-tri-jjinnatis, pinmdis major ihis \' 

 pmnulis secund. lanceolatis 2" ad 4", pinnidis minorihus llnearibus 

 oMusis 6"' ad 1" 6"', alihus costiilorum plus mmusve consfrictis. Venis 

 pmnatis. Sorts pane is vel \ 'It, par vis, ohscure fuscis ; sporulis hand 

 numerosis. Stipite hasim versus lato, pallido, pileis, vel squamulis 

 mollihiis, marcescentihus, induto. Polypodium undique plus minusve 

 pileis alhis glandulosis indutum. Ennogera Creeh prope Brisbane. 



Rhizome short, horizontal, thick, clothed with bright glossy, 

 pale coloured scales. Fronds one to four feet high, stipes stout 

 at the base and clothed with soft hair-like scales, which soon fall 

 leaving the stipes glabrous and pale or glaucous as well as the 

 rhachis, bitripinnate, larger pinnae 1 foot or more long, secondary 

 pinnae lanceolate two to four inches long, pinnules linear obtuse 

 half to one and a-half inches long, more or less connected by the 

 narrow wing of the costa, the whole plant more or less covered 

 with white glandular hairs. Veins pinnate. Sori from a few to 

 fourteen on a lobe, when ripe the spore-cases often of a dark 

 colour, all small and usually few in each sorus. Found at 

 Enoggera Creek, near Brisbane. 



There is not the least doubt but that this fern is a true 

 Polypodium although it seems in the Flora Australiensis to have 

 been placed with Aspidium tenericaule, Th. A mistake that might 

 occur from the examination of dried specimens, but never from 

 living ones ; the name used is appropriate, and the plant is most 

 likely identical with that of Bruckenridge, but none of his 

 authentic specimens are in the colony so there is some doubt on 

 this point. 



