Alsophila.] OXLVII. FILICES. 711 
ntire or 
obscurely crenate, the barren ones and the barren end of the unes 
ones often serrulate. Transverse veinlets usually once forked when sori 
ferous, often with 3 or 4 branches when barren. Sori in 2 rows 
Sometimes extending to the apex and as many as 8 on each side of the 
midrib, often fewer extending half way or reduced to very few at the 
base of the ont —Hook. “Sp. Filie. i. 50; Hook. and Bak. Syn. 
F. Muell. Fragm. v. 116; Sieb. Syn. Filic. n. 122, Fl. Mist. 
n. 241; Hook. p Fl. Tasm. ii. 132 ; F. Muell. Fragm. v. 52; A. 
coe Br. in Endl. Prod. Fl. Norf. 16; Hook. Spec. Filie. i. 49, t 
18, A tes Muell. Fragm. viii. 178; A. Cooperi, Hook. and Bak. Syn. 
B. 
Queensland. Rockingham Bay, Dallachy, W. Hill; Port Dem and Daintree 
River, M: irs Queensland, Hartman ; Mount t Lin pe d F : 
N. S. ale Port Jackson, &. Brown; frequent 1 Rte ravines and 
permanently da: ait woods in the immediate coast line, Port E ackson, Illawarra, pue. 
A, tet Hnc Woolls and others; New aa CQ. Stuart ; me stings and 
Clarence Rivers, Beckler, C. Moore ; Richm ond River, Mrs. Hodgkins 
Victori Dandenong Ranges and Sealor's Cove, F. pues pem Otway, 
van 
Ta King’s Island, R. Brown; not rare in shady forests, J. D. Hooker 
and oth 
Iti i a that the study of living —— in D native stations may show 
char. rs for distinguishing more tha one species, but as far as known the 
In the typical A. australis, chiefly from N. S. Wales and Tasmania, but 
So among Queensland and Norfolk Island — the ultimate pinnules are 
rather acute barre d serrulate at the end, the sori not reaching beyond the 
mi - 
Y 
obse 30 t reci: 
counterpart of Brown’s from King’s Island. The Queensland specimens which gave 
nise to the 4. Cooperi are generally intermediate between the two, more uently 
approaching the A from M 
Lindsey and Now England, with the “recurved mar ‘gins rather more distin 
crenate, are said to have the stems slender retaining the bases of the fronds aly ae 
the to hese may possibly m referrible to Rt ley seesi ‘Very few pay tg 
ve sent the base of thefronds. ‘These are sometimes covered wi 
long or more, sometimes with enacts weak scale at y and in one case wit 
two intermixed. 
Var? migresens, “Stem 10 to 12 ft. high, black and prickly, produci 
adventitious buds and fronds from the bottom pr top. Fronds large dinis à 
heavy.” —Lor Howe's s Island, C. Moore. re is oly a single portion of a 
frond in Herb. F. Mueller, which shows no Mice ter to distinguish it from 
A. australis. 
F. Muell Fragm. v. 58, 117. — Very 
4. A. Le 
nearly allied to A. australis and not easy to distinguish from some of its 
forms. Trunk generally but not always eseribed » more meron 
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