Schizea. | CXLVIL FILICES. 693 
opening in 2 valves, sessile in 2 rows covering the inner surface of the 
pinnules, which is really their under side, though from the curvature of 
the spike it M appear to be the upper one. 
The ends over tropical and temperate America and the southern 
hemisphere of the “Old World. Of the four Australian nale one has the general 
he ces another is scattered over the m ern hemisphere chiefly extra- 
tropical, a third is in New Zealand, one only is endemic. 
ads ente or nearly so, undivided. ier pinnules 
lines lon 1. S. fistulosa. 
Bani broli or — s0, mostly bifid, ' Soriferous pinnules 
very narrow, dis 4 lines long 2. S. bifida, 
Asy uet narrow-linear, undivide d. Soriferous "pinnules 
ng at em base of the A rene o tolline . 3. S. rupestris. 
ean press da dichoto: . 4. S. dichotoma, 
. S. fistulosa, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 103, t. 250.— Fronds 
ae tufted, 4 to 8 in. long, terete, undivided. Spike of the fertile 
ones about 4 in. long, with 6 to 20 pairs of oblong soriferous pinnules 
searcely above 1 line long, denticulat or shortly fr fri inge pore-cases 
usually 4 to 8 pairs in each sorus.—Hook. and Bak. Syn. Filie. 429; 
F. Muell. eee. v.113; 8. bifida, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 152. 
Victoria. Tarwin River, Gipps’ Land, F. Mueller ; Xx Mount William, Sullivan, ` 
Tasmania , abilarirs 'R. Brown ; near George Town, Gunn; Southport, C. 
Stuart ; near Circular He ad, F. Mueller. 
Also i in New ee New Caledonia, Madagascar and Chili. 
2. S. bifida, Swartz; Hook. and Bak. Syn. Filic. 429.—Fronds 
terete, 9 to 18 in. high, once forked at or below the middle or rarely 
undivided. Spike of the fertile ones } to $ in. lon ng, the soriferous 
pinnules very numerous and closely aoe narrow linear, 3 to 4 lines 
qug, — with long cilia. deer end often vmi much smaller 
in S. fistulosa.—R. Br. Prod. 162 ; Sieb. Fl. Mixt. n 
N. Australia. Near Providence Hill, F. Mueller. 
Queensland. ' Port Bowen, R. Brown ; Rockingham Bay, Dalk 
Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue ogre Banks “and — 
4. Cuniingham, Woolls and others; New iver, 
Wilco acleay Pe ium 'ald ; Hichi River, Be. es aa pe di 
to Twoiold 1 epe F. Mue 
Victo Brighto "u^ Mue 
oninia iard Fedsas» pR 
Also in New Zealand. Included by F. Muell, Fragm. v. 113, in S. dichotoma, 
3. estris, R. Br. Prod. 162.—Fronds cone above 4 in. 
long, s ded, flattened, about 1 line broad, tapering to a short. 
ook. an 
ae nd Grev. A Filie. t. 48; Hook. Gard. ] en t. 42. 
S. Wales. rt Jackson to the Blue Moantains, on damp rocks, rare, 
R, zv A. redii Fraser, Woolls; Yllawarra, JoAnso 
