Trichomanes.} FILICES. 945 
5. T. Colensoi, Hook. ‘f. Ic. Plant. t. 979.—Pendulous from 
rocks or from the trunks of trees. Rhizome wide-creeping, 
branched, capillary, more or less tomentose. Stipes short, slender, 
naked. Fronds rather distant, 2-5 in. long, 4-1 in. broad, oblong- 
lanceolate or linear-oblong, acuminate, quite glabrous, membranous, 
dark-green, 3-pinnatifid; rhachis slender, not winged. Primary 
pinne 5-12 pairs, remote, shortly stalked, pinnate at the base, 
pinnatifid above. Ultimate segments very narrow-linear, acute, 
quite entire; a central costa only in each segment. Sori solitary 
on the upper side of a pinna near its base and thus appearing 
axillary, erect, stipitate, quite free. Indusium tubular, the mouth 
slightly dilated. Receptacle usually exserted as a long capillary 
bristle—F. Nov. Zel. u. 17; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 357; Hook. and Bak. 
Syn. Ful. 85; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns, 47; Field, N.Z. Ferns, 71, t. 22, 
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Norv Istanp: Auckland—Ravines at Mamaku, near Rotorua, J. Stewart ! 
Lake Waikaremoana, Colenso! Taranaki—Mount Egmont Ranges, J. M. Brame. 
Wellington—Tararua Ranges, Buchanan! SourH Istanp: Nelson—Near Col- 
lingwood, Travers, Dall! Takaka Valley and West Wanganui, Kingsley. 
Canterbury — Banks Peninsula, Armstrong. Westland—Near Okarito, A. 
Hamilton! Otago—Vicinity of Dunedin, Buchanan! A. Hamilton! Lake 
Wanaka, Haast. Sea-level to 3000 ft. 
Well distinguished by the finely cut fronds with distant pinne and very 
narrow-linear acute segments. Its nearest ally is the South American 7. 
capillaceum, Li. 
6. f. strictum, Menz. ex Hook. and Grev. Ic. Ful. t. 199,—— 
Rhizome very short, erect or inclined, stout, woody, emitting many 
long wiry rootlets. Fronds numerous, crowded at the top of the 
rhizome. Stipes 2—4 in. long, stiff, erect, terete, naked or narrowly 
margined above, furnished with a tuft of red-brown bristles at the 
base. Fronds 3-6in. long, 14-24 in. broad, lanceolate or linear- 
oblong, acuminate, rigidly erect, yellowish-green, 3—4-pinnatifid ; 
rhachis narrowly winged throughout or the wing evanescent in the 
lower part. Primary pinne close-set, lanceolate, ascending or 
spreading, the lower sometimes reduced in size; secondary pin- 
natifid. Ultimate segments narrow-linear, flat, entire, glabrous ; 
texture firm; costa stout, unbranched. Sori usually not very 
numerous, terminating short segments near the base of the upper 
margin of the secondary pinne. Indusium quite free, erect, funnel- 
shaped, mouth dilated all round. Receptacle exserted, capillary.— 
A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zei. 95; Hook. Sp. Fil. i. 186; Hook. f. Fi. 
Nov. Zel. 1.17; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 356; Hook. and Bak. Syn. Fil. 
(edit. 2) 466; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns, 47. T. leptophyllum, A. Cunn. 
Precur.n. 232; Raoul, Chow, 38. T. Cunninghamii, Van der Bosch. 
T. rigidum var. strictum, Meld, Ferns N.Z, 72, t. 28, f. 3. 
NortH Isuanp: Damp forests from Hokianga southwards to Wellington, 
but far from common. SourHIsnanp: Nelson—Massacre Bay, Lyall, Travers ; 
