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ovate lobed or pmnntifid. Sori short, marginal in pinnatifid fronds; sometimes the fronds are simply pinnate 

 and the pinnae lanceolate-lobed or toothed, or pinnate below and lobed above, or sometimes the pinnules are distant 

 and stalked, or pmnatifidly cut into linear distant lobes, as in A.flaccidum. Rachk glabrous, or with a few scattered 

 paleae. Stipes generally compressed or angled, sometimes margined, more or less paleaceous at the base —The 

 young fronds of this species were formerly an article of food amongst the natives. 



6. Asplenium adiantoides, Eaoulj flaccidum, teneruni, frondibus ceespitosis brevibus (rarius elongatis) 

 late ovate lanceolateve laxe bipinnatis rarius pinnate, pinnulis paucis distantibus longe gracile stipitatis 

 rhombeis lobate mciso-lobatisve, soris margine remotis, rachibus gracilibus v. filiformibus parce squamosis 

 glabratisve, stipite basi pakaceo.— Saoul, Choix de Plantes,p. 10. I. 1. 



, Q J""a a -^° 0l ' eriana ' millor > fron dibus minoribus pinnatis bipinnatisve.-iVerf. in Hook. Ic. Plant, 

 i. y»d. A. Hookenanum, Col. in Tasm. Phil. Journ. 



Var. /3. Colensoi; pinnulis approximatis brevius stipitatis late obovatis profunde incisis, segmentis 

 lmeanbus mtegns v. furcatis.— A. Colensoi, Col. in Tasm. Phil. Journ. 



Hab Northern and Middle Islands : Banks' Peninsula, Raoul, Lyall. East Coast and interior, Colenso. 

 Var. 0. Ken-ken Ewer, A. Cunningham m Herb. Hook. Tuki-tuki Eiver and Waikare Lake, Colenso. 



A very pretty little Pern, much the smallest New Zealand species, and closely allied to the Fuegian A Maaella- 

 n^.- Fronds tu ft ed with fibrous rootgj 2 _ 6 inches long) ^^ ^^ del . catCj gkbrouS) ^ or b ^ 



wrth remote rhomboid pinnules on long slender stalks. Involucres short, remote from the margins -Dr Lyall 



IcauLL h gmen ? f a SPf T en fl '° m BankS ' PeninSUla ^^ ° f 3 SpaD l0ng ' With a St0uter -his, which bears 

 scattered hairs ; it approaches some states of A. bulbiferum. . 



7. Asplenia Mchardi, Hook. ffl.. erectum, spithamseum, subcoriaceum, fronde bipinnata ovato- 

 lanceolata snbflaccida, pmms plurimis breviusculis lineari-oblongis subacutis infra medium pinnatis versus 

 apicem profunde pmnatifidis, pinnulis plurimis approximatis brevi et late stipitatis late obovatis pinnate 

 fado-lobatis, lobuhs obtusis, soris lobulis marginalibus, raclii marginata subsquamosa, stipite sparse squamoso 

 rnizomate brevi paleis latis acuminatis tecto.-A. adiantoides, var. Eichardi, Hook. Ic. PI. t 977 

 Hab. Southern Island : New Eiver, Hb. A. Richard. 



This is an exceedingly different-looking plant from any of the above, though, from having only one specimen I 

 advance it as new with much hesitation. It resembles some forms of the Cape Aspl. f.rcatun, more nearly than 

 any New Zealand species, from all which latter it differs in the Cose and very finely out pinna. The var S of i 

 M»*m can only well be distinguished from it by the very thick leathery texture of its fronds, and larger' si Z ,nd 

 ess cut pinnae; m other respects it approaches it so closely that I doubt their eventually proving distinct -SI 

 ery short with many strong woolly fibres, and erect, membranous, brown, shining scales. Fronds tufted aZ 

 ong erect, linear ovate or lanceolate, bipinnata, glabrous, dark green, scarcely membranous. J^Z 



long, shortly stipitate, broadly ovate, deeply lobed ■ lobes blunt, short, with short marginal sori. 



8. Asplenium fiocddvm, Porst.; frondibus csespitosis crasse coriaceis erectis v. pendulis ovatis 

 oblongis loncatisve ngidis v. flaccidis pinnatis bipinnatis v. laxe dichotome ramosis, ramis pinnisve brevibus 

 v valde elongatis remote v. approximatis simplicibus pmnatifidis pinnatisve, lobis pinnisve varie s ec te 

 ultimis plensque lmeanbus obtusis, soris lobulis marginalibus rarius dorsalibus, raclii glabra marginata 

 stipite basi paleaceo, rhizomate fibroso squamis latis longe acuminatis aucto.— Pont. Prodr. Fl Antarcl 

 p. 109. C. Novaj-Zelandise, S F r. Syst. Veg. Schk. Crypt, t. 82. A. heterophyllurn, A. Rich Ftor Zn 

 Br. Ccenopteris flaccicla, A. Cunn. Flor. Darea flaccida el D. odontites, Willd. Sp. PI. 



Hab. Throughout the Islands, very abundant. (Cultivated at Kew.) Nat. name', "Pohutukawa" 



