Filices.\ 



FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



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lmean-Ianceolatis profunde pinnatifidis supra glabris, segmentis lineari-oblongis obtusis subcrenatis, soris 

 medio venss v. ad angulum vense furcatse sitis, capsulis pilis laxis elongatis immixtis. (Tab. LXXIIL) 



Hab. Northern Island : Euahine range, Colenso. 



A ,«r, beaotiful mi cMicte-fronde.l Tree-fern, of „,„ specimen, of which Mr. Colenso rem.rfa thai thev 



zzziiz rr c '° d ? : hi,!t i ot "™ "** the ^ » « f «« «*• *■« >-. *-*«?££ 



rWh,™ • i ■ i i , , ese tllere ls more or Iess of a i-eddisli stellate down : this 



wlnal le ; ldUOUS ' v but p SOme :l ? ™ S in a11 ft- of the plants.-^ apparently 3-4 feet long, and 



o r„ ; ;:;f • wb : i2 ; noi r s iong and 4 broad > , »»^ — ^l*. w i^l« 



pi led w t T US ^ ^T' ^ ^^ ^ ^ Se ^ °^- ™ se d « • ^-shape 

 Zl Li? T V 0US ' , "f ' JOmted Ilail ' S ^ 1 ilaVe dediCateJ tMs beaUtifal *«» t0 its -1- discovered 

 tar™^ 1 ' 808160 ^ 08 ^ 2 ' Segme " t; 3 '1— fthesa m e ; 4, capsules; 5, jointed hairs of reeep- 



Gen. IV. DICKSONIA, L'llerit. 

 Qlt J° r \™t™ hS> gI ° b0si - *«**>«*» prominulum. /«*„ bivalve; «e apioe venule 



^^ZLr"" e lobul ° pinnute reflexoj aiterum equita - r - ^ *■ f - te - 



whose^l^^^ 



nl]lpa P , laamania a girth of 12 feet throughout its height of 40.— Son on the margins of the pin- 



nules. Capsules on an elevated receptacle, enclosed in a two-valved involucre. Inner valve, or true Lolucre cori 



Zitel S ° V T-\ ariSinS fr0m tlW 6nd ° f a ^ "^ the recurved segment or tooth of th^i 1 

 opposite the inner. (Named m honour of Mr. James Dickson, a Scotch botanist.) 



laxe Pno^flt ^~-, SW V ^f I nigr ° raCllibUSqUG tubCTCUliS "***> P artialibus Cosfe q- «F» 

 oil re e ;? " ru ^ ^^ ^^ P™ lon S e a ™tis, F— Wi- 

 Sa r S I 8 m * SUFa SkberrimiS SUbtUS ad C ° Stam kxe P^escente-pLis glabratisve 



S ?n Pmnat , 1Sj S6gmentiS ! ™ bl °^ -bpungentibus argui profunde den- 



S i 2 w l^n K T ^ ° mmbUS S ° nferiS ' mVOlUCri Val " S ^bu,_,W,, ** Ml. ScMuAr, 

 K {I , (barren fl '° nd) - ^ *• ^ " L ^" 68 - Trichomanes squamosum, Jfc* Prodr 



lander 1 Tf "J^' "^ ^ the ** ° f MaDfls to Dus ^ Bay, ■*«* «-* &- 



lander, etc. Nat. name, "Weki/' 0,/. (Cultivated at Kew.) 



hi,h tlh frol'r 6 Tr -T fern ; tHe m ° St S ° Uthem " the WOrfd ' ° ften gTOWin » iD ^»P S ' with a trunk 10-15 feet 

 wool old tte! the i PerS1St f nt baS6S ° f the bIaok «tipite S .-r ^ ,^ clothed at the base with soft, pale brown 

 above • L ST I \ u midl ' ibS ° f thS Pinna3 r ° Ugh With ]ittl ° tubercles > blaok ° n the lower surface, paler 



fJawavtm I'" ° nb0th SUrfaCeS C0TCred m ° re M l6SS With de0iduOUS s P readin S hairs - d «*-ff. -Wch 



way from the old specimens. J*^ VC ry rigid and coriaceous, 10 feet long, twice or thrice pinnate. Pinna 

 12 20 mcheslong, 4- broad with long acuminate points or tails. Pinnules often stipitate, linear elongate, aeumi" 

 nate 3-4 inches long, X- f mc h broad, barren ones less rigid and pinnatifid, fertile narrower and pinnate Seomenls 

 short, oblong, stiff, X-x mcn Iong) with pungent poinfe; Jecp cl , nate . toothed ? %«^ 



generally occupying every tooth of every pinnule throughout a great portion of the frond, whose wholeUfL Z 

 thus cover with a rich brown tint. Valves of the involucre hemispherical, nearly equal. " 



denaum ^f\ Ant « rdica > Br - sti P ite ^^ brri, partialibus costisque molHter patentim pilosis 

 mum glabrae fronde conacea hpinnata, pinnis Hneari-elongatis longe acuminatis, pinnulis sessilibus 



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