Gleichenia.] CXLYII. FILICES. 699 
Thunb.; Mertensia dichotoma, rr Sehkuhr, — ES 148; 
Eee — * Br. Prod. 161; 'F. Muell. Frag . 114. 
Pi Au a. Hunter's River, York Sound, A. dint: nines River, 
F. Nadiri Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 187, 4 
een sland Shoalwater Bay, R. B Da Daintree River, Fitzalan; Rock- 
ingham p Daltachy ; Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, T "Mueller and others. 
N. Port Jackson, Woolls, By 
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whatever may have been the genus under which they may have been first pantha. 
11. TODEA, Willd. 
‘Trunk or rhizome erect. Fronds compound. Spore-cases globular, 
without any or only a a very obscure transverse ring, opening to the base 
in 2 valves; clustered in sori on the under surface of the segments. 
Ag of few species, dispersed over South Africa, the Malayan dures the 
South Pacific Islands and New Zealand. Of the three AXitra fe species one is 
ica and New Ze — another in New Guinea and the South 
Pacific de the third is endem 
Pinnules of Regu, entire or serrulate. Sori at 
Sanath, EM es arg? dec the den pinnules cce. ho. Parbesa. 
Pinnules of a membrano pellucid A POTN Sori of 
few A — — pee to the midrib. 
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raat ye siete pinnatifid . rséuxiionr qe ee ep TUM 
T. barbara, T. Moore; Hook. and Bak. Syn. Filic. 427.— 
Trunk omi; attaining sometimes 5 ft. Fronds varying from under 2 ft. 
to above 8 ft. lo ong, glabrous, twice pinnate. Primary pinne numerous, 
om 3 or r in. to 1 ft. long. Pinnules numerous, ofa firm consistence, 
narrow-lanceolate, 3 in. to 2 in. long, entire or more frequently — 
upper ones decu rrent ard confluent at the base. Sori he 
oblique simple or forked eileen usually covering the greater a of 
the under surface of the lower pinnule es of the lower pinne, the rest of 
the frond barren. "pore cases rather large.—Osmunda barbara, Thun K: 
R. Br. Prod. 163; Todea er Peu Willd.; Hook. f. Fl. lm ii. 153, 
t. 168; F. Muell. Fragm. v. 114. 
Queensland. Rockingham jhe Dailachy ; Bowen, Woolls ; Moreton Bay, W. 
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edi: pres à Yorktown rivulet, scarce elsewhere, Gunn ; 
Recherche Bay, Oldfield. 
Also in South Africa and New Zealand. 
