Lindsaya. | FILICES. 959 
scales. Stipes 3-8in. long, rather rigid, slender, wiry, angled, 
polished, glabrous or slightly scaly towards the base. Fronds 
3-8in. long, 14-4in. broad, oblong-lanceolate or linear - oblong, 
more rarely ovate-oblong, subcoriaceous, dark-green, bipinnate. 
Primary pinne nearly opposite, 1-3in. long, lanceolate, erecto- 
patent, pinnatifid above, pinnate below. Pinnules or segments 
obovate or rounded-cuneate, entire or more or less toothed or 
lobed, rarely again pinnatifid. Veins obscure, flabellately branched. 
Sori forming a continuous intramarginal line round the apex of the 
lobes.—A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 85; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 214; 
Raoul, Choiz, 38; Hook. Sp. Fil. i. 218; Hook. f. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 
ii. 19; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 359; Hook. and Bak. Syn. Fil. 110; Benth. 
Fl. Austral. vii. 720; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns, 52; Field, N.Z. Ferns, 
78, t.19,f.1. Adiantum cuneatum, Forst. Prodr. n. 461. 
Var. Lessonii, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. ii. 19.—Fronds simply pinnate or 
2-pinnate at the base alone; pinnz oblong-lanceolate, entire or lobed or pin- 
natifid.—L. Lessonii, Bory in Duper. Voy. Cog. 278, t. 37, f. 2; A. Rich. Fl. 
Nouv. Zel. 84; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 212; Raoul, Choix, 38; Hook. Sp. Fil. 
1,217. Iu. discolor, Col. 
NortH anp SourH Istanps: From Hokianga southwards to Foveaux 
Strait, common in the North Island, local on the eastern side of the Sou:h 
Island. Sea-level to 2500 ft. 
Also in Australia, Tasmania, and the Fiji Islands. 
83. L. viridis, Col. in Tasmanian Journ. Nat. Scr. (1845) 14.— 
Rhizome very short, suberect. Stipites densely tufted at the top 
of the rhizome, 1—4in. long, slender, wiry, dark chestnut-brown, 
angled, smooth and polished, glabrous except a tuft of pale-brown 
scales at the base. Fronds 6-14 in. long, 1-14in. broad, lanceo- 
late, acuminate, pale-green, subcoriaceous, 2—3-pinnatifid ; rhachis 
slender, flexuose, shining, naked. Primary pinne alternate, ascend- 
ing, the lower ones much reduced in size, rhomboid-lanceolate ; 
secondary obversely deltoid, simple or deeply lobed or again flabel- 
lately pinnate. Ultimate segments about 4in. long, cuneate or 
linear-cuneate, truncate. Veins simple or forked. Sori very nu- 
merous, at the tips of the segments. Indusium membranous, trans- 
versely oblong, from rather broader than long to twice as broad as 
long; outer valve (tip of the segment) irregularly erose.—Bak. in 
Journ. Bot. (1875) 109; Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. x. (1878) 396 ; 
Thoms. N.Z. Ferns, 51; Field, N.Z. Ferns, 79, t. 21, £.2. L. tricho- 
manoides (in part), Hook. Sp. Fil. 1. 218; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 
i. 19; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 359 (not of Dryand.). lL. microphylla, 
Hook. and Bak. Syn. Fil. 110 (the New Zealand plant), not of 
fi. Br. 
NortH Isuanp: Auckland—Great Barrier Island, Kirk, Winkelmann ! 
Little Barrier Island, Miss Shakespear! Thames, Adams! Henderson’s 
Creek, T. F. C.; Huia Creek, Kirk; near Mauku, H. Carse; between Tau- 
ranga and Rotorua, Colenso! East Cape district, Bishop Williams. Tara- 
