38 FLORA OP NEW ZEALAND. [Fihces. 



Hab. Prom the Bay of Islands to Banks' Peninsula ; on rocks, etc. (Cultivated at Kew.) 



RMzome short and stout, very different from that of P. coriaeeum, from which it further differs chiefly in the 

 acute pungent lobes of the pinnules.-The species is not so widely distributed as the former though found in 

 Norfolk Island, Java, and the Cape of Good Hope.-ftAM LXXYIII. Kg. 1-8, upper and under surfaces of pin- 

 nules from different varieties ; 9, involucres -.—all magnified. 



3 Polystichnm hispidum, J. Sm.j rhizomate repente crasso dense crinito, fronde ovato-deltoidea tn- 

 quadripinnata, pinnnlis lineari-oblongis acutis inciso-pinnatifidis, lobnlis pungentibns integemmis bis-ter- 

 dentatisve, soris parvis, stipite rachiqne pilis longis rigidis patentibus bispido v. enrnto.-,/. tm. ben 

 Ferns, p. 83. P. Sehkuhrii, Presl, Pterid. Aspidinm, Swartz. A. Rich. Flor. A. Cunn. Prodr. A. 

 setosum, Schlc. Fil. t. 49. 



Hab. Throughout the Islands, abundant. (Cultivated at Kew.) 



A very beautiful Fern, found only in New Zealand, remarkable for its very finely cut fronds, and the long stiff 

 black spreading hairs on the raehis and rtipes.-JW 1-3 feet high, tri-quadri-pinnate, rather coriaceous , prrmary 

 pinna, linear-oblong, acuminate : secondary the same shape, shortly stipitate, pinnaMd or agam pmnate «* 

 1 inch long, pinnatifid to beyond the middle; lobes ascending, linear, sharp, entire, or with a few sharp teeth. 

 Sari very small, near the junction of the lobes. RacMs and stipes chesnut-brown. RMzome very stout creeping 

 densely covered with long, rigid, subulate, often curved scales.-The involucre is sometimes obliquely peltate, and 

 this plant is hence intermediate between Polysticlium and Nephrodium. 



4. Polystichum vestitum, Presl; frondibus coriaceis bipinnatis (nunc apud proliferis), pinnis lineari- 

 lanceolatis, pinnulis brevi stipitatis oblique ovato-oblongis glabris mucronatis integris crenatis v. argute 

 inciso-dentatis inferioribns nunc basi pinnatifidis, lobulo antico dilatato, stipite rachiqne villoso paleisque 

 latis castaneis deciduis onusto, rhizomate et basi stipitis squamis magnis densissime techs.-Presl, Fiend. 

 Aspidinm vestitum, Willd. Sp. PL ScMuhr, Filt.M. A. Pick Flor. A. Cunn. Prodr. A. prohferum 

 Br Prodr A. pulcherrimum et A. Waikarense, Col. in Tasm. Phil. Journ. A. venustum, Homb. et 

 Jac q .Foy.auP6leSud,t.h. Fl. Antarct. p. 107. A. coriaceum ft Banks el Sol. MSS. An Polytrichum 



aculeatum, Roth. 



Hab. Mountainous parts of the Northern, and throughout the Middle and Southern Islands ; common 



in woods, etc., Banks and Solander, Colenso, etc. (Cultivated at Kew.) 



This handsome Fern is as variable and as likely to give rise to many discussions, as its equally and similarly 

 variable and very near ally P. aculeatum has done in England. It is found commonly in Australia and Tasmania, extra- 

 tropical South America, in many of the Indian Islands, and as far south as Lord Auckland's Group and M'Quarne's 

 Island Mr Brown's A. proliferum, founded on a Tasmanian proliferous plant, supposed both by Mr. Brown and 

 myself (see 'Flora Antarctica') to want broad scales, is the same as this; for Mr. Gunn has sent specimens of it 

 equally possessing the scales in a young state, and the P. vestitum is often proliferous in New Zealand. In Lord 

 Auckland's Group it becomes subarboreous, having a stout caudex 2-4 feet hlgh.-Fronds very numerous, spread- 

 in- like a crown from a stout rhizome, 1-3 feet high, rigid, coriaceous, linear or ovate-oblong, bipinnate. Puma 

 linear-lanceolate acuminate. Pinnules numerous, ovate, oblong, pungent, entire, sharply toothed or almost pinna- 

 tifid ■ the lobes' often pungent, shortly stipitate; the lower outer margin produced into a short broad blunt auricle 

 RacMs woolly, and as well as the stipes covered with large, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, membranous scales, that 

 are often lacerated, and are deep brown; those at the base of the stipes of large specimens have a white margin, 

 and are very densely set, an inch long, and curved. 



Gen. XVIII. NEPHRODIUM, Br. 



Sori globosi, dorsales, medio v. ad apicem venularum insert!. Involucrum reniforme, sinu affixum. 



