LOMARIA. 17 



the west coast of Patagonia, Valdivia {Lechler, PI. Ghil. n. 19C), .ind as far north 

 as Conception, in Chili, Pappig, Gay (Cordillera of Colchagua), and Juan Fer- 

 nandez, Staten Land, Menzies ; " South Brazil," Sellow. Falkland Islands, /. D. 

 Hooker. Kerguelen's Land, APCormick. Tristan d'Acnnlia, Carmicltad, Milne 

 and M'Gillivraij, Votj. of H. M.S. Herald. Tasmania, Brovm, It. Gunn, Lawrence. 

 Alps of S. Australia, on Cabbaros, a mountain GOOO feet elev., F. Mueller. New 

 Zealand, northern, middle, and souihernmost islands. Banks, Colenso, Sinclair, J. 

 D. Hooker, Lyall, etc. etc. : — thus it may be said to circumscribe the globe, 

 wherever there is land, between lat. 35° and 55° S. — This interesting little Lomaria 

 has even a more extensive geographical range in the southern hemisphere than our 

 well-known Blec/ninm borea/e (Lomaria Spicant) has in the northern, and like 

 that, too, it is doubtful whether it should bo refevr d to Lomaria or to Blecknum. 

 The involucre certainly has its origin a little within the margin, and such is the 

 case with some species of Pteris, Clieilanthes, and Pellma. Fee's L. Guyana 

 is this plant with rather narrower segments to the fertile fronds ; and we have 

 the authority of Sellow's specimens from Dr. Klotzsch, named (but nowhere de- 

 scribed) by Willdenow L. Sellowiana, being also identical. 



19. L. Banksii, Hook. fil. ; small, caudex often an inch or 

 an inch and a half thick 2-6 inches and more long clothed 

 with the densely-matted wiry roots mixed with remains of 

 stipites, at the apex among the new fronds paleaceous with 

 rather copious lanceolate castaneous scales, fronds tufted a 

 span and more long (include the rather short stipites) linear- 

 lanceolate tapering much downwards, sterile ones coriaceo- 

 membranaceous opaque glabrous pinnatifid almost to the 

 rachis with elliptical obtuse entire horizontal segments the 

 lower gradually abbreviated so as to form a decurrent deeply 

 sinuated wing to the rachis, stipes short more or less scaly, 



fertile pinnae smaller than the sterile ones (but the stijiites 

 longer) linear-oblong pinnated, pinnae small oblong obtuse 

 sessile sometimes a little decurrent. — Hook. fil. Fl. N. Zeal. ii. 

 p. 31. t. 76 {excellent). Osmunda obtusa. Banks and Soland. 

 MSS. 



Hab. New Zealand, throughout the islands. Batiks and Solander, Menziea 

 (Dusky Bay) ; Bay of Islands, All. Cunningham, J. D. Hooker. Auckland, Sin- 

 clair ; East Coast, Colenso ; Middle and South Islands, Lyall. — A peculiar and, 

 we think, a well-marked species, admirably rejjresented in the ' Flora of New 

 Zealand' above quoted. The sterile fronds taper remarkably downwards, the 

 segments becoming smaller and smaller and gradually decurrent upon the short 

 stipes, sometimes almost occupying the whole stipes. 



20. L. immila, Raoul; the smallest of the genus, caudex 

 when young at least subrepent slender at length much and 

 compactly entangled forming a dense caudex-like mass in 

 conjunction with the descending wiry roots, bearing a few 

 broad-ovate hyaline fulvous scales only at the very apex, 

 stipites tufted an inch h)ng filiform chatFy at the very base 

 with a few scales resembling those of the caudex, fronds 



. VOL. III. D 



