Colensoane. N. O. Filices. 
TAB. CDXXIX. 
LoMARIA LANCEOLATA. Spr. 
Frondibus sterilibus pinnatifidis lanceolatis scaberulis laciniis 
approximatis oblongis obtusiusculis subfalcatis denticulatis 
infimis abbreviatis orbiculatis, fertilibus pinnatis, pinnis 
remotis linearibus longitudine fere fertilium, rachi stipiteque 
nudis. 
Lomaria lanceolata. Spr. Syst. Veget.v. 4, p. 62. All. Cunn. 
Bot. N. Zeal. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. v. 2, p. 363. 
Stegania lanceolata. Br. Prod. p- 152. A. Rich. Fl. Nov. Zel. 
pb. 86. Endl. Prodr. Norf. p. 81. 
Has. Van Diemen’s Land. Brown. Norfolk Island. (Endhi- 
cher). New Zealand, Bay of Islands, Kerri River and Astro- 
labe Harbour, Cook’s Strait, A, and R. Cunningham, Wm. oa 
Colenso, Esq. D’ Urville. 
I possess the same, or a very nearly allied species, gathered 
by Bertero in Juan Fernandez. It scarcely differs, but in the 
fertile pinne being remarkably decurrent, so that the fertile 
fronds may almost be called pinnatifid. 
Fig. 1. F ertile pinna :—slightly magnified. 
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