774 CXLVII. FILICES. [.Notholena. 
in the West Mediterranean region. The distinctions pointed out by Kuhn 
between the Mediterranean and Australian plant do not hold good in all the 
ustralian specimens, 
3. N. distans, E. Br. Prod. 146.—Very closely allied to N. vellea, 
of the same stature and general habit and not always easy to distinguish 
from it. The outline of the frond generally ruit ihe lobes of the 
pinnules smaller and the indumentum not so dense, assuming on the 
under surface the form of bristles with little or none of the woolly 
Er of N. vellea. Sori the same.—Hook. Speo E v. 114, Ic. Pl. 
t. 980, Syn. Filie. 372; Kunze in Pl. Preiss. ii. 109; Cheilanthes 
distans, A! Braun; F. Muell. Fragm. v. 122. 
Queensland. Percy Islands, A. Cunningham ; Logan River, Fraser; Brisbane 
River, PR Mo Wer, and many other localities in South Queensland from various 
nan 
s. "Wales. Po rt Jac R. A. Cunningham, Woolls ; New 
iei C. Stuart ; Lord Horse 8 "Islan, alice 
Victoria. Sno owy River, F. Muell 1 
S. Australia. Spencer's Gulf, i Brown ; Lofty Ranges, F. Mueller ; Gawler 
Range Giles, 
WF Aus ustralia, Drummond, n. 666; York District, Preiss, n. 1802. 
Also in Norfolk Island, New Caledonia and New and. It ? pref by 
Mottenius Tilic. Hort. Lips. 51 to the S, African Meis pr ofusa, K 
fragilis, Hook. Spec. Filic. v. 114, t. 287, Syn. Filie. 372.— 
Bhisoms horizontal, rather thick, se d — broadly deltoid in 
sene y. 123. 
N. Australia. Fitzmaurice River, F. Mueller ; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 110, 
138, 211, 
35. GRAMMITIS, Swartz. 
(Gymnogramme, Desv.) 
Rhizome short and tufted or creeping. Fronds pinnate or bipinnate, 
with forked and free or reticulate yeins. Sori linear or oblong, without 
any indusium, on veins pm from the midrib, scattered or crowded 
in a broad intramarginal line 
The genus is generally dispersed over the tropical and some temperate regio 
hemispheres, in the New di the Old World. Ofthe six Australian species, one 
is widely dispersed in the Old World without the tropics extending to the Andes of 
