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subtus sparse puberula, pinnis primariis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, secundariis lanceolatis lineari-lanceo- 

 latis pmnatifidis rarius caudatis, segmentis oblongis sabacutis crenato-dentatis pinnatisve, pinnulis sessilibus 

 stipitatisve plerumque basi adnata decurrentibus lineari-oblongis linearibusve serratis lobatis pinnatifidisve 

 lobis serratis, venis furcatis anastomosantibus, rachibus stipiteque glabris.— Font. Prodr. Endl Prodr 

 Flor. Ins. Norf. A. Rich. Flor. A. Cunn. Prodr. ScMuhr, Fil. t. 92. P. Endlicheriana, Agardh ' Recens 

 Gen. Pterid.p. 66. Rook Ic. Plant, t. 973. 



Hab. Northern Island : Bay of Islands, etc., R Urville. Falls of Keri Keri River, Cunningham, etc 

 Auckland, Waikate, and Great Barrier Island, Sinclair. 



A very similar plant to P. tremula, but with broader fronds and pinnules, which are very variable in size • it is 

 best known from that plant by the veins being always connected by branches near the costa. It is a native of 

 Norfolk Island, Tasmania, and Juan Fernandez, whence the specimens are almost quadripinnate, with the primary 

 pumas often caudate, and the pinnules narrower. In some New Zealand specimens the frond appears pinnate or 

 bipinnate at most, the pinna; pinnatifid, with very broad segments, \\ inch long and nearly | inch broad, acute and 

 serrated at the tips only ; in these the veins branch and anastomose repeatedly. This appears from specimens in 

 the British Museum to be certainly the P. comans of Forster, long considered a doubtful plant, and the P. Endli- 

 cheriana, Ag. 



Gen. XIY. LOMAEIA, Willd. 



Son frondibus distinctis, lineares, continui; capsulis demum superficies totam pinnule contracts 

 openentibus. Involucrum marginale, scariosum, continuum, intus liberum v. dehiscens. 



A large tropical and south temperate genus of Ferns.— Fronds tufted, usually pinnatifid, or simply pinnate • the 

 central ones m the tufts bearing fructification, the rest barren, with broader pinnae ; sometimes one side only,' or a 

 few phmse of the frond only are fertile. S'ori as in Pteris, but generally occupying the whole under surface of the 

 pinnule, as in SlenocJdana, which however has no true involucre. Involucre marginal, scarious, continuous, often 

 reaching the costa. (Name from Aw/m, a fringe; in allusion to the scarious indusium.) 



§ a. Sterile fronds pinnate. All, or at least tie lowest pinna contracted at the base, or stipitate. 

 1. Lomaria procera, Spr. ; data, rigida, valde coriacea, frondibus pinnatis, pinnis sterilibus lineari- 

 oblongis v. ensiformi-lanceolatis v. acutis acuminatis caudatisve basi truncatis angustatis auriculato-corda 

 tisve, fertilibus (ejusdem v. diverse frondis) linearibus, costa subtus stipite rachique paleacea v nuda - 

 Spreng. Syst. Veg. A. Cunn. Prodr. Rook. Ic. Plant. I. 407, 408. Fl. Antarct. p. 110. L. latifolia 

 Col. in Tasm. Phil. Journ. Stegania procera, Br. Prodr. A. Rich. Flor. p. 86. t. 13 Blechnum pro' 

 cerum, Lab. Fl. Nov. Roll. v. 2. p. 87. t. 247. Parablecbnum procerum, Presl, Fpimel. p. 109. 

 Yar. a; data, robusta, valde coriacea, pinnis sterilibus basi oblique truncatis v. late cuneatis. 

 Yar. (3; omnia var. a, sed pinnis sterilibus basi auriculato-cordatis. 

 Yar. y; omnia var. a et f3, sed pinnis sterilibus basi angustatis. 

 ^ Yar. 8. minor; pallide viridis, minus coriacea, pinnis sterilibus subobtusis basi subtransversa, supe- 

 noribus adnatis. Stegania minor, Br. Prodr. (Tab. LXXV.) 



Hab. Abundant throughout the Islands, in woods and marshes, on rocks, etc. (Cultivated at Kew ) 

 A common and extremely variable Fern, of a very coarse texture, found in Auckland Island, Australia and 

 Tasmania, and which I cannot distinguish specifically from the West Indian L. lineata, the South American L ' CM 

 knsis, and the South African L. Gapensis. It differs from the Antarctic American I. Magellanica in the broader and 

 shorter paleaa at the base of the stipes.— Fronds a span to 4 feet high, tufted, growing from a stout caudex that 

 often becomes woody and frutescent. Stipes very stout, generally paleaceous at the base. Rachis generally naked 

 and glabrous. Sterile fronds pinnate, short and broadly ovate or lanceolate. Pinna three to twenty pair, distant or 



