Aspidiwn.] CXLVII. FILICES. 739 
segments lanceolate, 2 to 3 lines broad, 
> pinnately toothed or lobed, 
pe cedes or mucronate and the margin of’ the lobes usually 
of E ike. Veins pinnate, more or less divided ‘ccording to the pg 
oa y pinnules, Sori usually 1 or 2 to each principal lobe 
E E from the midrib. ^ Indusium Min ERU c et 
mem . ^ "d the sorus enlarges, and sometimes perhaps deficient from 
cedes $49 Muell. Fragm. v. 186; JVephrodium decompositum, R, Br. 
E 9; Hook. Spec. Filic. iv. 146, Syn. Filic. 281; Hook. f. Fl. 
i. 149, Fl. N. Zel- t. 79; Lastrea decomposita, Presl; Bail. 
Queens]. Ferns, 49, 
Queensland. Bro ur Sound, 
Brown; Rockingham and Cleveland Ba 
Een; Bowen, Woolls ; Br isbane vive. Moreto n vita Fraser, C. Stuart ; Rock: 
pton e rgi eat in South Queensland, Zhozet others. 
kson to the Blue Mountains, R. D. Brow nand others; New 
ia C. y» t; Hastings, Macleay and Clar ence Rivers, Beckler ; Richmond 
x rs. Ho dg kinson ; Tweed River, Guilfoyle; Tlawarra, 4. Cunningham, 
Wannon River, Robertson ; numerous localities from Dandenon and 
Western P Pot to Genoa River, F. Mueller and others. = 
» mania, Woods around Hobarton, anid J. D. Hooker ; Cuming's Head, 
Stuart. 
S. Australia. Penola, Woods. 
Also in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, 
Some pera with small fronds and broader, more pianos pars ous and less acu 
Men odium rufescens, Blume, 
eus iri 'The supposed Australian specimens of that species are undoub btedly 
errible to .4. den and Nephrodium lancilobum, Ba Syn. Filic. ince. 
App ii E me to be inseparable from the larger more divided specimens of the 
14. A, tenerum, Spreng. Syst. iv. 109. — Very near A. decompositum 
and varies like it in the fronds tates or Lage Dosen with the lobes 
or teeth acute, but the pinnules and segments are more re lar and 
or dentate, the artic! branche 
more regularly pinnately lobed 
dn much more numerous, and the sori are close to the in ata 
stance from the midrib.—Nephrodium tenerum, R. Br. Pr sy 149. 
Elliott, ers ; Mount 
Queens Keppell Bay, A. = own 5 Brian t 
Mueller, D Dailey ; Rockhampton n, Bow Bay, C. Stua 
Fi Richm 3 Kiven, Henderson Jins. Hodgkinson ; 7 gellinger River, 
itsgerald ; Tweed River, Gare yle 
15. A, tenericaule, Thw. Enum. Pl. Ceyl. 393. C E short and 
ronds 1 to 3 ft, long on a stipes of 1 to 2 ft., 
in. 
decurrent, ciliate on the margins as W 
rhachis with rigid white hairs or bristles. Veins bra 
but Sori 1 1 to6 in each lobe, small and distinct with few spore- 
