Mlices.~\ 



PLOKA OP NEW ZEALAND. 



A large genus, of coriaceous, ngid, opaque Perns, chiefly natives of the Tropics, Australia, and New Zealand ■ 



are found m Japan Owhyhee, and temperate South America.-ifc creeping, often haffy o woo ly as 



is the whole plant sometn.es. ft** erect, rigid, sometimes very tall and slender. ^/diclZnl 



branched, branches simple or pinnate. Finn, narrow, pinnatifid; the segments generally convex, somewTwS 



evolute margms which form an involucre. Sori of 1-6 sessile capsules, that bui J longitudinally, 'eTtZS 



ract r 7 TT " f ^ " "^ ° r "* ° f the *°* OT forked "^ ^ microscopic h a 



x l. c r ;: s r s r; • comp e ring surrouadkg the sessiie ^ •** ^ *» ** ^ * «» 



Replant!) genUS - ^^ ™ h0n ° Ur ° f ^ ^ * ^ GlekAe "> a G ~ «*»« « ™- 



§ 1. Eugleichenia.-^W rf *fc apex of a veinlet. Segments of the pinna broad, short. 

 1. Gleichenia *»«*.«&, Lab.; fronde dichotome ramosa, ramis divaricatis pinnate pmms pin 



u^hS; ls subrotm t ovatisve t nis concavisve ' capsuiis ^ ™^>™^ZC 



U P^>^ EookSp.Filvl 



P- o. t. I A. (i. microplrylla, Br. Prodr. 



hecistlllfa' ^*' pi ™T ! ; bis TOlde <™ -P-^s tegentibus, rachi interdum lanata.-G. 

 uecistopnyila, A. Cunn. Prodr. Hook Sp. FU. v.l.p 4, t IB 



fte son exposed to deeply concave with the sori concealed by their revoke margins -l J if- fee ^ 



^PiL^^^\ ^°^ "I P ; miate; ""* Ch ^ and —d with scattered stellate rusty-re 

 lax \Ja I l S ' i TOad ' Shming 8b0Ve ' ° ften 8' lMCOUS belw > ^re covered with lone weak 



^»rx ~ri f r::;r *- *■* * th » *"- ** —■ » - - %- 

 Lt«° 6 ::n trr^-t- s, ° amosi8q ' ie 8 " b """ 8 " ,be ™ e - •*-* •**>■* ~« * 



lm. v. 1. p. .3. 1. 1 c. Kunze, Farnhr.p. 164. t. 70,/. 2. 



Grev^Ml^ts:' "*"*' **"*" hn ^eo-lan,t a et ^leace a.~G. alpina, *. a* «. t , ffi^. ^ 



Hab. Middle Island : Foyeaux Straits, Z y ^. Var. /3. Taupo Lake, in dense tufts, Colenso 

 woollv^t? a tf COmm ° n TaSmaDian Pknt ' al8 ° &Und in Bass ' s Strai ^ ^d varies extremely in the amount of 



r;lfl° :s rs - ,r imes th : whoie piant> from the rwzome ^^ k * m ^ «*di 



'd haft (such 1S especially the case w lt h alpine specimens) ; at other times the plant is nearly glabrous throuoW 

 aud the under surface of the lobes is glaucous. Tasmanian specimens attain nearly as large a si as J ! ,v ' 



*y New Zealand ones are smaller and more slender. The pinnae are more slender th n in n «"*™«> 



saccate lobes wWnh Inni- i;i- in -., , P an m G - ^mt-vestita, and the 



tempted to d^tuth G T^ ^ "* 0Me dMBgBai ^ 8pecifica11 ^ J »»» » -in 



woolly state of n 1!' f , 3 TT'' ""^ ^ " alpin6 ' " d "^^ Stu " ted > a « d «*» 



vol i ° % g h6red tbCSC Val ' idieS paSSing int ° ° aC anotller ' h ^ Mr. Gunn's 



