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smooth btck st J T habitat f01 ' tUS SP6CieS ' WWch may be reC °^ ized * «- *«**. glossy, 



smooth black stipes and racks, sparmgly branched, flaccid frond, linear pinna, and broadly oblong curved verv 

 blunt pmnules M inch long, which are membranous, dark green, and have a few scattered black Z on Z 

 upper surface. The involucre* are few, scattered, each placed in a sinus of the crenatc pinnules, pal kid„ y -sL d 

 I have seen specimens with simply pinnate fronds. . J P 



3 Adiantum J****m, Linn.; fronde tenera flaccida oblongo-ovata tri-quadripinnata, pinnulis 



lut TZJ T- PltatiS 0rbiCUktiS baSi ^ CUneatis ma ^ e ^ *U sons 2-6 

 smubus pmnuk, mvolucns majusculis oblongo-lunulatis remformibusve, stipite rachique gracili glaber- 



JJr. 1 roch. Hook. I. c. A. tngonum, Lab. Fl. Nov. Roll. v. 2. p. 99 t 248 / 2 



oJ^S? , ISl T d •' f T ^ E ; y ° f Islan<3S t0 C0 ° FS ^ in °P-' ^. East Coast, 

 Memo. Auckland, «^. Houraki Gulf, Lyall, (Cultivated in England.) 



^ ««Wfe was regarded as a distinct species from A. MMopicuM, till the author of the 'Species Filicum' 

 hem.spheie, but is ha ld ly known m the north temperate ; it inhabits Australia and Tasmania.-Everywhere perfectly 



In eT ' T T US ' Pak green ° r yeU ° WisL ***" tuft6d ' "' 4 - 10 *«*- long/ ProX^ 



oft ongated, tn- q uadnpinnate , primary Iranckes alternate, distant. Pinnules ^ inch broad broadly cuneate 

 shp at ei upper margin rounded, deeply lobed. Son few. Involucres very large, pale, kidney- shaped placed hi' 

 notches of the pmnules. BacMs slender, flexuose , partial ones and stalks of the pinnules capillary. ? 



4. Adiantum /« fflfSj Br.; erectum, fronde ampla deltoidea qnadripinnata v. supradecomposita 



strp tatis bas cuneate obtusis margme superiore et auteriore inciso-crenatis dentatisque lobis reteis 

 sonfens, mvolucns transverse elongatis, rachi fiexuosa supra strigoso-pubescente subtus glaberrirna nitida 

 stipite^vahdo scabro mtido ebeneo.-^. P rod ,, non A. Cunn. Pro,, Hook. Sp. Ml. v . 2. p 7i. 



Hab. Northern Island : alluvial bants of the Manganaitoka River, Colenso. 



muchtZerstiff'rV"? a p bOU \ POrt JaCkS0 " ; the tall6St ^ Zealand ^-fronds 2-4 feet high, very 

 sTrath 1 f mmleS Stipitate ' ° bliqUdy 0blM1 ^ l0Wer =»** *»W* or slightly arched nner 



;s ; n x: nv ^c^n^i a "r nate; d lo r es r eeth bearing Li < « ^ 



«*. very black, shining, rough P ' glabl '° US "* ^ ^ «"«* with ^ ** ^ above. 



Pinnuli's tilttT ^77 "', !°° k • ; fr ° nde SUbddt0idea bi - tnpiQnat ^ P" lnis P aucis li-ari-oblongi, 

 p nnuhs stiptate subehartaee. glabernnus subtus glaueis late oblique oblongis obtusis margine superior 



eniformbusve sinu angusto, stipite bas: scaberulo v. rachique glaberrirna nitida ebenea.-^. Sp. Ml. 



t ' A ' formos ^ A - KM. Flo, A. Cunn. Prod,, non Br. 



Hab. Northern Island : from the Bay of Islands to CooFs Straits, D'Urville, Cunningham etc 

 A species only known to inhabit New Zealand.-/^,,/, 6-18 inches tall, sparingly and irregularly hwm.1. , 

 annate, rarely (in small specimens) simply pinnate. Pinnules * inch long, hke'thos^of Tfo^i Wh 

 larger rounded remform involucres ; it further differs from that plant in the rachis being perfectlZw 1 ^ 

 surfaces, as is the stipes, except sometimes at the very base.-Small specimens resemble TaMneZ - , 

 membranous, have no black hairs on the pinnules, and the stipes is stouter Sn mP J 7 # 



— drawn out, from growing in woods! have l'on g pedicel ^ ^ Z^ tj^ZT SH 

 vanously lobed. The sinus of the involucre is always very narrow and deep ^ ^ ^ 



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