Mlices.~\ 



ELOBA OP NEW ZEALAND. 



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which are deeper lobed, and bear more numerous sori, scarcely covered by the involucre, and which hence passes 

 into Polypodium rugulomm, Lab. Forster, probably through accident, calls this an arborescent Fern. 



2. Hypolepis Millefolium, Hook. ; fronde spithameea submembranacea ovata v. deltoidea tripinnata, 

 pinnis primariis lineari- v. ovato-lanceolatis, secundariis lineari-oblongis obtusis, tertiariis (pinnulis) stipitatis 

 lato-oblongis obtusis profunde pinnatifidis glabratis, segmentis late oblongis inciso-lobulatis margine supe- 

 riore soriferis, soris parvulis, costis rachi stipiteque sparse subglanduloso-pilosis, rhizomate repente nudo. 

 —Hook. Sp. Ml. v. 2. p. 68. t. 95 B. 



Hab. Northern and Middle Islands : shady places near the top of the Buahine mountains, Colemo. 

 Lake Kotiuti, Nelson, Monro. 



A very much smaller, more delicate, and more finely cut species than ft ienuifolia.— Fronds a span to a foot 

 high, broadly deltoid or ovate, tripinnate. Primary pinna: few, ovate or linear-Ian eeolate; secondary f inch long, 

 shortly stalked, linear-oblong, blunt ; tertiary broadly ovate or oblong, blunt, also stalked, pinnatifid, or cut on 

 each side into three or four lobes, which again are inciso-crenate. Sori solitary on the lobes of the pinnules, 

 small, covered with the reflected edge of a orenature. Stipes and rachis and casta all pale, covered with weak 

 scattered hairs. Stipes sometimes hairy at the base. Rhizome without scales, creeping. 



3. Hypolepis distans, Hook. ; gracilis, spithameea ad bipedalem, rigida, fronde coriacea (sicca brunnea) 

 lineari-ovata acuminata bipinnata, pinnis primariis distantibus anguste lineari-lanceolatis, secundariis bre- 

 viter stipitatis lineari-oblongis obtusis crenato-lobatis glaberrimis, soris parvulis lobulis reflexis pinnularum 

 mvolucratis, rachibus stipiteque rigidis aculeolatis scaberulis, rhizomate squamoso villoso.— Hook Sp Fil 

 v. 2. p. 70. t. 95 ft. 



Hab. Northern Island : Northern extreme, Edgerley. Hokianga, Hutt Valley, and Tararua, Colemo. 



A remarkably distinct-looking plant, rigid, wiry, and sparingly branched, of a brown colour when dry.— 

 Rhizome creeping, with scaly brown hairs, very woolly, as are the rootlets. Stipes short or long, dark red-brown, ri°-id, 

 and, as well as the rachis and often costa, rough with minute prickles. Frond a span to 1|- foot long, bip innate. 

 Pinna distant, opposite, slender. Pinnules numerous, rather distant, linear-oblong, blunt, very shortly stipitate, 

 | inch long, rigid, coriaceous, glabrous, crenate, lobed or almost pinnatifid. Son very small, each covered by an 

 involucre formed of a recurved crenature or lobule of the pinnule. 



Gen. XII. CIIEILANTHES, Sw. 



Sori punctiformes, marginales, distincti. Involucra ut in Ilypolepide, sed plerumque confluentia. 



Though the New Zealand species of Cheilanlkes does not at all resemble Hypolepis, it is not readily charac- 

 terized, except by having confluent involucres; i.e. instead of solitary isolated teeth or lobes of the pinnules being 

 reflexed over the sori, longer portions of the margin of the frond are so, to a greater or less degree, forming a con- 

 tmuous involucre. The genus is a very large and widely diffused one, and the only New Zealand species closely 

 resembles Nothola-na distans. (Name from X eAos, a lip, and avOos, a flower ; from the form of the indusium.) 



1. Cheilanthes Ienuifolia, Sw.; rhizomate crasso repente squamoso, frondibus casspitosis erectis 

 glaberrimis conaceis lmeari-ovatis deltoideisve tripinnatis contracts e pinnis primariis erectis distantibus, 

 pinnulis parvis sparsis lineari-oblongis ovatisve lobatis pinnatifidisve, lobulis obtusis obtuse erenatis 

 omnibus soriferis, soris continuis, stipite rachibusque validis brunneis nitidis glaberrimis v. stipite basi 

 piloso. — Smartz, Syn. Fil. ScMu/ir, t. 125. Br. Prodr. A. Rich. Flor. A. Cum. Prodr. Hook. Sp. Fil 

 v. 2. p. 82. C. Sieberi, Kunze, Hook I. c. I. 97 B. C. Preissiana, Kunze in Plant. Preiss. Hoole. I. c. 

 Pteris humilis, Forst. Prodr. ? 



Hab. Northern and Middle Islands ; as far south as Banks' Peninsula, in dry places, Banlcs and 

 Solander, etc. 



