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FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



[Filices. 



Hab. Abundant on trunks of trees (rarely on wet rocks) throughout the Islands. 



Po^oMuu Gratis is also found in Lord Auckland and Campbell's Island, T— ia and in W £fc £ 

 fibrous. Ironis an inch to a span long, tufted, linear-oblong ovate or lanceolate ^^^t'l^l blunt, 

 very base of the stipes, perfectly glabrous elsewhere, deeply pmnatifid Pinnules "^™Zrt or unning 

 decurrent, quite entire, or lobed, or subpinnatifid, often irregularly with one or ^^^ sTates have 

 out into a tail. Son round or oblong. RacUs and short *». winged nearly to the base. Dwart 

 small linear lobed fronds. 



Note. A*Ar«ft«. «*"*»««. from SOmetim6S WantiDS ^ inVOlU ° re] "^ S ° US m 



Gen. XXI. PHYMATODES, Presl. 



Sori in sp. Nov. Zeland. uniseriales, plus minusve fossa frondis immersh globori v. ^tlt 

 rJZZ* «— anastomosantes, areobs subhexagonis ; — panels areobs hbens.-Ehrzonia «- 

 WVMMM . Frondes C m^^^-->^^- Stipes to «««. 



A very abundant tropical genus of Eerns, generally growing on trunks of Jj£ *■£ J- **£- 

 (larg e) sori partly sunk in a pit of the frond, and the anastomosing ~ O ° ^ ^ from a 



L Phymatodes ****** ^X^ 

 remotis approximate anguste hneanbus v. bte obbng, inline podium ^,^ r . ^. 



ptri tr;:; te rrxr^Si "1 « * & - *• - <- -•>. 



* H gr£^^ abu ndant on rocks and trunks of trees. (Cultivated at Kew) 



.,,,,!* i •„ Tnvrl Auckland's Island, Tasmania, Australia, and probably 



A very common and variable plant, also found n Lord ^^'^ geMrally quite 



the same as some wrdely diffused species of other parts rffte w g .^ fo ^ 



glaucous, partially sealy ; sometimes ^.^^^£^1^; some entire, lanceolate, acute, others 

 foot long, coriaceous, perfectly smooth, shining, with a thickened mar ^ 



broader and piunatiM; pinnule, close or distant, narrow-h near or ^^J J , 



acute. An numerous, large, globose or oblong, partially sunk m the nond. y 



Stipes stout, scarcely winged above, obscurely jointed on to the rhizome. 



2 Phymatodes pustulata, Presl; frondibus membranaceis glaberrimis aliis anguste hnean-lanceolatis 



inters aliis lanceolatis profunde decursivo-pinnatifidis, pinnis linearibns apice angustatis obtusis, sons m 



accatis globosis prominulis, rhizoniate paleis scpiarrosis membranaceis obtecto sfapte superne alato v. 



^l-Preslmrid. Polypodia pustulatum, Font. ProJr. B, Pro,, ScM.Ml.t.m P. acrost, 



Ch0id Slf l^itmlu^, as far south as Akaroa; climbing lofty trees. (Cultivated at 



^Very simnar to P. BillarMeri in size, habit, and general appearance, but of "brano.3^ ^h generally 

 narrower fronds and pinnules, prominent sori, much longer, more flaccid (not f^l^^JZtuZ 

 squarrose pale., and more slender, margined or winged stipes. The whole plant is fragrant, and bj 



natives to scent their oil and food. It is found in Norfolk Island and East Australia. 



Gen. XXII. DICTYMIA, J. 8m. 



Son umseriales, subsaccati v. superficial nudi, globosi v. oblongi. Yen. anastomosantes, interna,; 



