Pteris.] OXLVII. FILICEs. 731 
Queensland. Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, F. Mueller ; Dalrymple Creek, 
Har enr 
. 5. Wales. Grose River, R. niet Nus Mountains, Mrs. Calvert ; New 
En glan d, C. Stuart ; eem Clarence and 1 eay Rivers, Beckler ; Twéed iver, 
Cone ; southwar SD fe “Gunningha; Twofold Bay, "f Mueller, 
ria. emo. Bet F. Muel 
P. quadriaurita, Retz; Hook. Spec. Filic. ii. 179, t. 184, Syn. 
Filie. 158.— Rhizome thick. Fronds pinnate, varying from 1t to 3 ft. long. 
Pinnz mostly opposite, 4 to 8 in. long, regularly and deeply pinnatifid, 
otherwise undivided or the lower ones with one = two similar secondary 
linear, often faleate, obtuse, 4 to 8 lines long, confluent at the base, 
he pinne usually ending in a long linear-lanceolate point lobed at the 
base. Sori often not reaching the base of the segments.—Bedd. Ferns 
S. Ind. t. 31; F. Muell. Fragm. v. 125. 
Queensland. Cape York Peninsula, — : pA N. Taylor ; Rockingham 
Bay, W. Hill, Dallachy ; Pa ee River, Fi 
Widely spread over the tropical regions By is E and the Old World. 
mula, A. Br. Prod. 1541. —hRhizome not seen. Fronds 
sometimes we at length expanded so o conceal the 
os ES E E YT, ue Filic. ii. 174, t. 120; Syn. Filie. 161; Hook. 
0. 
Qu een Yo s ical x. Taylor; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; Mount 
Elhott, Fitzalan s 36 ckhampton and neighbouring districts, Bowman, Thozet, 
0 Shanesy and oth 
N. S. Wales. "Port pes E the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Woolls and 
Others; New Englan astings River, Beckler; Richmond River, 
ctn Hodgkinson; ; pee [idees “Gulf yle; ye Howe's Island, Miine, M‘Gillivray 
and oth 
p Yictoria, Wannon River, Robertson; Cape Otway Ranges and Gipps’ Land, 
Mue 
Ms Common in shady places, forests, etc., J. D. Hooker. 
Also in Norfolk d Fiji Islands and New Ze aland, and closely allied to the 
European P. arguta, Ait. with which it is united by F. Mueller, Fragm. v. 126. 
. P. aquilina, Linn. var. esculenta ; Hook. Spec. Filic. ii. 197, 
sy. Bip. Ts- 63. — Rhizome thick and div sd Fronds from 1 or 2 to 
ondary or tertiary pinne numerous, lanceolate, 
pinnate, seus etia a linear undivided obtuse segment, the l lat 
segments oblong or linear, 
