Polypodium. | CXLYII. FILICES. 763 
eealed in the thick substance of the frond. Sori oblong or linea 
row on each side of the midrib, and when old often confluent covering 
nearly the whole surface.—F. Mueli. Petits v. 127; Grammitis aus- 
tralis, R. Br. Prod. 146; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 151; Sieb. Fl. Mixt. 
n. 235; G. Billardieri i, Willd. Spec. v. 139; Polypodium diminutum, 
Bak. Syn. Fil. 507. 
engen Mount Lindsay, W. Hill; Maroochie River, Bailey. 
. S. Wal Port Jackson, R. Brown, A. Cunnin ng ham ; Now Ru and, C. 
hari A E ins on Bellinger River at an elevation of 6000 ft., C. Pm: ‘Tweed 
River, Guilfoyle ; ; Macleay River, Fitzgerald; llawarra, Fide! Lord Howe’s 
Island, C. Moore, Fullagar. 
Victoria. Mou nt Juliet, Sullivan ; sqq cs Ranges, Apollo Bay, Mount Baw- 
per ies. F. Mi ed 3 ace Howe, 
ania Riv H. Br own ; abundant on orm da rocks and trunks of 
ber Miren bait the BE, MAAA oF to 4500 ft., J. D. Hook 
Also in New Zealand and the extreme south of America. 
2. P. Hookeri, Brackenr. ; Hook. Spec. Filic. iv. 171, Syn. Filie. 319. 
— Fronds entire linear or lanceolate as in P. australe and sometimes as 
small, but often 6 to 8 in. long, and not quite so coriaceous, tapering 
into a very short stipes and always fringed and sprinkled with long 
spreading dark hairs. Veins rather more divided than in P. australe. 
Sori orbicular oval or shortly oblong, rather large, in a single row on 
each side of the midrib.—P. set M Hook. and Arn. Bot. Beech. 
103, t. 21, but scarcely of Blum 
Queensland. Rockingham Bay, Dallachy 
. S. Wales. Lord Howe's Island, C. Moore, Fitzgerald. 
Also inthe Philippines and the andwich Islands. Iti E te voy a Apu An tothe 
true P. setigerum, Blume (Gramma fasciculata, Blum 
Hook, Ic. Pl. t. 941), but that has always the frond ex E sed in ye 
a much longer stipes which gives it a different facies. 
8. P. blechnoides, Hook. Spee. Filie. iv. 180, Syn, Filie. 831.— 
Fronds 2 to 4 in. long, capers deeply pinnatifid. Segments lanceolate 
dilated and shortly confluent at the 
adde of the frend 3 to 5 lines long, the 
contracted into a short narrowly 
winged stipes. Veins pinnate in eac ch lobe. Sori at : end of the 
veinlets, orbicular, 3 to 5 pairs in each lobe, forming ws nearer to 
the margin than to the midrib.— Grammitis eda. dier in Ann. 
at. Hist. ser. 2,1. 328, t. 17; Polypodium contiguum, Brackenr. ; F. 
Muell. Fragm. v. 127. 
Queensland. Rockingham Day, Dallachy. 
Also in the Pacific Islands. 
