978 FILICES. [Lomaria 
gradually reduced in size to minute auricles, margins crenulate ; 
veins fine, close, forked. Fertile fronds rather shorter than the 
sterile, pinnate; pinnz remote, very narrow-linear, 2-3 in. long, 
apiculate.—Bak. in Ann. Bot. v. (1891) 219. L. acuminata, Bak. 
Syn. Fil. (edit. 2) 481; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns, 66. L. attenuata, 
Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 368; Field, N.Z. Ferns, 101 (not of 
Willd.). 
KERMADEC ISLANDS: Sunday Island, abundant, McGillivray, T. F.C. 
NortuH Istanp: Three Kings Islands, 7. Ff. C. Little Barrier Island, 
Reischek ! 1. #'. C. 
Also in Norfolk Island. It can only be distinguished from ZL. lanceolata 
by the greater size, the long acuminate sterile pinne, and the much longer 
fertile pinne, and might well be regarded as a variety only. On both the 
Three Kings Islands and the Little Barrier it appears to gradually merge into 
the ordinary state of L. lanceolata. 
5. L. lanceolata, Spreng. Syst. Veg. iv. 62.—Rhizome short, 
stout, erect or inclined, rarely produced into a short caudex 3-6 in. 
high. Stipes 2-6in. long, firm, erect, dark-brown at the base and 
clothed with subulate scales, paler and glabrous above. Fronds 
tuited, forming a crown at the top of the rhizome; the sterile ones 
6-18in. long, 2-4in. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, gradually nar- 
rowed to the base, rather membranous, pale-green or dark-green, 
quite glabrous, pinnate below, pinnatifid above. Pinne numerous, 
close-set, horizontally spreading or ascending, 1—2in. long, +-4in. 
broad, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, attached by a broad some- 
what dilated base, gradually tapering to an obtuse or acute point, 
slightly falcate, usually sinuate-crenate towards the tip, rarely 
entire; veins conspicuous, free, forked. Fertile fronds usually 
shorter than the sterile, 1-2in. broad, pinnate; pinne 3~-1din. 
iong, distant, narrow-linear, acute or apiculate.—A. Cumn. Precur. 
n. 180; Raoul, Choix, 37; Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 429; Sp. Fil. 
iii. 11; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. u..29; Handb. N.Z. Pi sole 
Hook. and Bak. Syn. Fil. 177; Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 735; 
Thoms. N.Z. Ferns, 66; Field, N.Z. Ferns, 102, t. 11, f. 2, 2a. 
L. aggregata, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xx. (1888) 223; Field, 
N.Z. Ferns, 103, t. 29, f. 7, 7A. Blechnum lanceolatum, Stwrm. 
NorrH and SoutH IsLANDS, CHATHAM ISLANDS, STEWART IsLAND: From 
the North Cape southwards, abundant by the margins of streams, &c. Sea- 
level to 2500 ft. 
Also in Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and the Pacific islands. A 
variable plant. Large specimens pass into L. Norfolkiana, and smaller ones. 
are sometimes difficult to separate from L. membranacea. 
6. L. dura, Moore in Gard. Chron. (1866) 290.—Rhizome stout, 
erect, clothed with the bases of the old stipites, sometimes 
lengthened into a short caudex. Stipes 1—2in. long, clothed at 
the base with large ovate-lanceolate brownish scales. Fronds 
