Aspidiumn.] CXLYIL. FILICES. 757 
N. S. Wales. Duck Creek, Richmond River, C. Moore; Tweed River, 
Guilfoyle. 
Also in tropical Asia and the Pacific Islands. 
when perfect rather large, orbicular, peltate or on the same frond 
attached by a deep sinus.—Wephrodium confluens, F. Muell. ; ; 
and Bak. Syn. Filic. 504; 4. melanocaulon, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 133, not 
N. Australia. Johnstone River, Gulliver. : à 
Queensland. Rockingham Bay, Dallaehy ; Daintree River, Fitzalan ; York 
Peninsula, X. Taylor. 
t. 10 to 12, Syn. Filic. 252.—Rhizome short and thick. Fronds 1 to 2 
rt of the stipes and the whole frond 
the upp i 
Sori usually 6 to 8 on each pinnule.—F. Muell. Fragm. v. 13 ; Siel re 
S ilie. n. 104; 4. proliferum, R. Br. Prod. 147 ; Polystichum vesti- 
Queensland. Head of Dalrymple Creek, Hartmann. 2 
n S. Wales. Port sae Woolls ; cheated ues Beckler ; Richmond 
iver, C. Moore; Macleay River Fitzgerald ; Iawarra, Johnson. 
" oria. From Portland and the Grampians to Gipps Land, F. Mueller and 
Others, : 1 : 
g  asmania, Derwent River, R. Brown; abundant in subalpine situations, J. D. 
ooker, 
In most temperate and subtropical regions of the globe. 
10. A. aristatum, Swartz ; Hook. Spec. Filie. M 27, e 
RE . high, broadly ovate-triangular in outine, tW. 
Sess chai glide et eeu innate at the base, firm but thin, 
-hairy at the base. Pinnules or 
ate; 4 to 1 in. long, narrowed 
nd by a few teeth ending in 
pinnate or the lower pinnæ again p 
ght green and glossy, the stipes scaly 
segments very obliquely oblong or lanceol, 
or cuneate at the base, bordered at the e 
