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A very abundant plant in South Chili, Fuegia, and the Falkland Islands; also found in Juan Fernandez, Tris- 

 tan d'Acunha, Kerguelen's Land, and on the Tasmanian Mountains. It is a small, coriaceous species, with creeping- 

 rhizome and very csespitose narrow fronds, of which the fertile are always much the longest ; weak, elongated 

 specimens have less coriaceous fronds, with obscurely sinuate pinnules. — Fronds 2 inches to 2 feet high, with long 

 stipes, linear, i-f inch broad, narrowed above and below, deeply pinnatifid or pinnate. Pinnce 20-50 pairs, 

 very close together, linear-oblong, blunt, sessile on very broad bases. Fertile fronds pinnate ; pinnas spreading, 

 sometimes defiexed, remote, linear, blunt, curving upwards, rarely straight and short, lowest remote, small, rounded, 

 often without sori; involucres distinct, scarious. EacJiis and stipes stout, smooth, sometimes with a few palese. 

 Rhizome paleaceous. 



9. Lomaria Banksii, Hook. til. ; glaberrima, fronde sterili brevissime stipitata anguste lineari profunde 

 pinnatifida basi pinnata, pinnis brevibus remotis semi-orbicularibus infimis latioribus quam longis seb- 

 pissime confluentibus ad basin stipitis deeurrentibus, fronde fertili sterilibus breviore pinnata, pinnis paten- 

 tibus remotis late lineari-oblongis obtusis, rhizomate valido ascendente. Osmunda obtusa, Banks ei Sol. 

 MSS. (Tab. LXXVI.) 



Hab. Throughout the Islands, in dark woods, but rare, Banks and Solander. Dusky Bay, Menzies. 

 Bay of Islands, A. Cunningham. East Coast, Colenso. Auckland, Sinclair. Middle and South Islands, 

 Lyall. 



Intermediate in some respects between I. lanceolata and L. alpina ; readily distinguished from the latter by its 

 stout, ascending stipes, fronds pinnate or pinnatifid to the very base, by the fertile fronds being shorter than the 

 barren, and by the remote, much broader, semi-orbicular pinnaa. — Mieome in full-grown specimens prostrate below, 

 ascending, several inches long, stout, woody, covered with strong matted fibres, its crown paleaceous. Fronds 

 numerous, coriaceous, 6 inches to 1-|- foot high, forming a tuft on the top of the rhizome. Stipes and raclds 

 very stout, naked. Barren fronds pinnate. Pinnce 18-30 pairs, semi-orbicular or broadly oblong, rounded, 

 entire, coriaceous, sessile by a very broad base ; the lower confluent and decurrent to the very base of the stipes, 

 often forming a sinuous wing to the latter. Fertile fronds 6-8, much shorter and smaller than the barren, pin- 

 nate. Pinna remote, short, broadly oblong, blunt, spreading, curved or straight.— Plate LXXVI. Fig. 1, barren 

 pinnule ; 2, fertile ditto ; 3, sori ; 4, capsule ; 5, spores :— all magnified. 



10. Lomaria nigra, Colenso; parvula, luride viridis, frondibus sterilibus pinnatis superioribus sub- 

 lyrato-pinnatifidis, pinnis paucis subinterruptis oblongis obtusis sinuato-crenatis glaberrimis infimis saspins 

 majoribus subdefiexis stipitatis marginibus costis rariusque paginis inferioribus pubescentibus terminal! 

 maxima basi lobata, fertilibus pinnatis, pinnis paucis distantibus suberectis anguste linearibus apice subu- 

 latis acuminatis v. apiculatis terminali elongata, rachi stipitibusque sparse paleaceis. — Col. in Tasm. Phil. 

 Jonrii. Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 960. 



Hab. Northern Island : east coast and interior, Colenso, Sinclair, etc. Milford and Bligh's Sound, 

 Lyall. 



An anomalous-looking plant, with blackish or lurid membranous fronds, brittle when dry, a span long. — Pin- 

 nules few in number, irregularly placed, broadly oblong, blunt, often erose, sinuate, irregular in outline, the terminal 

 generally very large and lobed, the lower pair much larger than those above them, stalked. Fertile fronds slender, 

 with a few very slender acuminate distant pinnae; the upper very long, erect. — The habit and paleaceous rachis re- 

 semble those of L. fluviatilis ; in its ordinary state the lyrate frond sufficiently distinguishes this, but its other 

 characters are not very marked ; the narrow fertile pinnse with subulate tips, resemble those of L. lanceolata. The 

 pubescence consists of short tomentum, which is rufous when dry, sometimes spread over the whole under surface of 

 the pinnules, at others confined to the margins and costa% or wholly absent. 



§ c. Frond bipinnatifid. 



11. Lomaria Fraseri, A. Cunn. ; caudice valido elongate) suberecto, frondibus casspitosis ovatis v. 



