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small specimens are sometimes simply pinnate. Primary pinne ovate-lanceolate ; secondary linear, sometimes 
pinnatifid ; pinnules broadly oblong or rounded, quite entire, adnate and decurrent, rarely linear; costa flexuose ; 
veins forked, often joining at the base in the lower pinnules. Stipes and rachis very pale-yellowish or brown, chan- 
nelled in front, shining, often glaucous. i 
5. Pteris Endlicheriana (Agardh, Recens. Gen. Pterid. p. 66); fronde ampla membranacea flac- 
cida bi-tripinnata glaberrima v. subtus sparse puberula, pinnis primariis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, secun- 
dariis lanceolatis lineari-lanceolatisve pinnatifidis, segmentis oblongisve subacutis crenato-dentatis pinnatisve, 
pinnulis sessilibus stipitatisve plerumque basi adnata decurrentibus lineari-oblongis linearibusve serratis 
lobatis pinnatifidisve, lobis serratis, venis furcatis anastomosantibus, rachibus stipiteque glabris.—Hook. Je. 
Plant. t. 913; Gen. et Sp. Fil. ii. 218; Gen. Fil. t. 65 B. P.comans, Endl. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Norf. p. 13, 
non Forst. ; Fl. N. Zeal. ii. 26. 
Has. Tasmania, Gunn; no localities attached, but it probably inhabits damp, shaded ravines, in the 
forests.— (v. v.) 
DistriB. New Zealand, Norfolk Island, Juan Fernandez, Pacific Islands. 
This species approaches so closely to P. comans, Forst., that in the New Zealand Flora I united it with that 
plant; but the pinne are always shorter and less acuminate.—A very similar plant to P. tremula, but with broader 
fronds and pinnules, which are very variable in size; it is best known from that plant by the veins being always 
connected by branches near the costa. In some New Zealand specimens the frond appears pinnate, or bipinnate 
at most; the pinnee pinnatifid, with very broad segments, 13 inch long, and nearly 4 inch broad, acute and serrated 
at the tips only; in these the veins branch and anastomose repeatedly. 
Gen. XII. LOMARIA, Willd. 
Sori frondibus distinctis, lineares, continui; capsw/is demum superficiem totam pinnule contracte 
operientibus. /nvolucrum marginale, scariosum, continuum, intus liberum v. dehiscens.— Frondes coriacee, 
- cespitose, fertiles sepissime sterilibus distincta. 
A large tropical and south temperate genus of Ferns.— ronds tufted, usually pinnatifid or simply pinnate, 
- the central ones in the tufts bearing fructification, the outer barren, with broader pinn®; sometimes one side only, 
or only a few pinne of the frond are fertile. Sori as in Pteris, but generally occupying the whole under surface 
of the pinnule. Jnvolucre marginal, scarious, continuous, often reaching the costa. (Name from Aoja, a fringe ; 
in allusion to the scarious indusium.) 
$ a. Sterile frond usually simple. 
l. Lomaria Patersoni (Spr. Syst. Veg. iv. 62); frondibus simplicibus indivisis v. pinnatifidis 
pedalibus suberectis, sterilibus lanceolatis crenato-dentatis acuminatis, fertilibus anguste lineari-elongatis, 
stipite basi paleaceo.—Kunze in Schkuhr Fil. Suppl. p. 69. t. 34; Hook. Fil. Exot. t.49. Stegania Pater- 
soni, Br. Prodr. 159. 
Has. Port Dalrymple, Paterson. (Cultivated in England.) 
Distris. Victoria (Mueller). 
This remarkable Fern has not been found in Tasmania since Colonel Paterson's visit, in the very early part of 
this century, but it has long been cultivated at Kew from spores either taken from the dried plant, or that came 
over in soil with other plants. It is at once distinguished by its simple, rarely pinnatifid fronds, of which the 
sterile are linear-lanceolate, acuminate, and crenate, the fertile very narrow and linear-elongate. 
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