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(from myself, among others). There is also a much larger 

 and coloured drawing, with dissections, of G. cunninghamii 

 (also executed by Fitch) given in the " Flora of New Zea- 

 land," by Sir J. D. Hooker, which differs (in some respects) 

 from the former figure, particularly in the stipe and frond 

 entirely wanting both buUate scales and woolly hairs (which 

 are such an important character in the type) ; yet in his de- 

 scription these are prominently mentioned ; also, " branches 

 pinnatifid, segments decurrent on the branches, falcate, linear, 

 •J-in.— fin. long, lin.-^in. broad, plane, &c. Capsules 2-6" (in 

 the figure shown in clusters of 4 and 3). Sir J. D. Hooker's 

 work w^as published ten years later, and then he states, 

 " North Island, as far south as Queen Charlotte Sound." 



II. I have given {supra) some of those differential charac- 

 ters of G. cunninghamii not found in this species ; and I do 

 this for two reasons : (1.) I have never found G. cunninghamii 

 (vera) in any of my frequent travelling in woods and districts 

 south of the Thames, though I have of species (or vars.) allied 

 to it. Some I sent from time to time (as collected many years 

 ago) to Kew ; and I see that Moore, in his " Index Filicum," 

 has noticed them under G. cunninghamii, giving my MS. 

 names of G. intermedia and G. venosa ; I had no time then 

 in those days to closely examine them. (2.) I have more 

 lately seen both specimens and drawings (these latter im- 

 perfect) of Gleichenias collected south of Auckland, and 

 named by the collectors, growers of ferns, and amateurs G. 

 cunninghamii, which I believe to be wrongly named, not re- 

 presenting the much larger and peculiarly-marked northern 

 plant. 



Davallia, Smith. 



1. D. (Microlepia) jyinkneyi, sp. nov. 



Ehizome densely clothed with spreading hairs (also stipe 

 rachis and subrachises, and veins below), hairs straight, 

 subulate, acute, articulate, whitish, clear, shining at n'odes. 

 Stipe erect, 7in.-llin. long, slender, dry, deeply channelled, 

 margins pale raised and rounded, pale-brown, dark at base ; 

 hairs reddish-brown at base, fugacious and then stipe slightly 

 submuricatulate. Frond deltoid -acuminate, 8in.-9in. long, 

 5in.-8in. broad at base, glabrous above, pale-yellowish-green, 

 texture membranaceous, bipinnate, main rachis free through- 

 out ; pinnae subovate-oblong acuminate, altei'nate, distant, 

 sub 20-jugate, horizontal, subfalcate, spreading, lowest pair 

 opposite ; tips lobed, subacute, crinite. Pinnules rather 

 distant, alternate, subovate-oblong, obtuse, toothed triden- 

 tate, petiolate, dimidiate, lateral margins lobed and toothed 

 above, teeth large subacute, lower margin entire, oblique, 

 slightly decurrent ; the upper basal pinnule largest, lin. 



