142 FLORA OF TASMANIA. | Filices. 
$ b. Sterile fronds pinnate, All, or at least the lowest pinne, contracted at the base, or stipitate. 
2. Lomaria procera (Spr. Syst. Veg. iv. 65); elata, rigida, valde coriacea, frondibus pinnatis, pinnis 
sterilibus lineari-oblongis v. ensiformi-lanceolatis v. acutis acuminatis caudatisve basi truncatis angustatis 
auriculato-cordatisve, fertilibus (ejusdem v. diverse frondis) linearibus, costa subtus stipite rachigue paleacea 
v. nuda.—Hook. le. Plant. t. 427, 428; Fl. Antarct. p. 110; Fl. N. Zeal. ii. 27. L. latifolia, Col. in 
Tasm. Phil. Journ. Stegania procera, Br. Prodr. 153; A. Rich. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 86. t. 13. Blechnum 
procerum, Lab. Fl. Nov. Holl. ii. p. 87. t. 247. Parablechnum procerum, Pres, Epimel. p. 109. 
Var. a; elata, robusta, valde coriacea, pinnis sterilibus basi oblique truncatis v. late cuneatis. 
Var. 8; omnia var. a, sed pinnis sterilibus basi auriculato-cordatis. 
Var. y; omnia var. a et 8, sed pinnis sterilibus basi angustatis. 
Var. ô. minor; pallide viridis, minus coriacea, pinnis sterilibus subobtusis ON subtransversa supe- 
rioribus adnatis.—? Stegania minor, Br. Prodr. 154 
Has. Abundant (especially the var. a) in wet, shady places, throughout the Island.—(v. v.) Var. 6. 
Macquarrie Harbour, etc., 4. Cunningham, Gunn.—(v. v.) 
Disreıs. Throughout the temperate, damp regions of the southern hemisphere. (Cultivated in 
England.) 
A common and extremely variable Fern, of a very coarse texture, which 1 cannot distinguish specifically from 
the West Indian Z. lineata, the South American L. Chilensis, and the South African Z. Capensis. It differs from 
the Antarctic American Z. Magellanica in the broader and shorter palez at the base of the stipes.—/ronds a span 
to 4 feet high, tufted, growing from a stout caudex that often becomes woody and frutescent. Stipes very stout, 
generally paleaceous at the base. Rachis generally naked and glabrous. Sterile fronds pinnate, short, and broadly 
ovate or lanceolate. Pinne three to twenty pairs, distant, or approximate and imbricating at the base; the upper 
generally adnate, lower stalked, extremely variable in length, from 2-12 inches long, and from 3-13 inch broad, 
broadly oblong or linear, and almost strap-shaped, blunt, acute, acuminate or tailed; the base acute, cuneate, trun- 
cate, cordate, or produced into great lobes above and below, which sometimes lap over those of the pinnz above it 
and the rachis; of a very rigid texture, marked with close grooves between the veins; margins finely and minutely 
toothed. Terminal pinna long or short, sometimes erect, and much larger than the lateral ones. Lowest pinne 
sometimes obliquely ovate, or even orbicular-reniform. Fertile pinne on separate fronds, or occupying half (one 
side) of the sterile, or a few pinnze or portions of them only are soriferous, narrow-linear, 3-8 inches long, some- 
times so narrow as to be filiform. Costa naked or paleaceous. 
3. Lomaria fluviatilis (Spr. Syst. Veg. 64); frondibus ceespitosis linearibus elongatis pinnatis, 
pinnis sterilibus plurimis membranaceis oblongo-rotundatis lineari-oblongisve obtusis erenatis margine un- 
dulatisve infimis breve stipitatis supremis basi lata adnatis confluentibusve, pinnis fertilibus brevibus linea- 
ribus erectis obtusis, rachi stipiteque brevi squamis patentibus, rhizomate crinito-paleaceo.— 77. N. Zeal. ii. 
28. L.rotundifolia, Raoul, Choix des Plantes Nouv. Zél. p. 9. t. 2 B.; Col. in Tasm. Phil. Journ. Ste- 
gania fluviatilis, Br. Prodr. 154. (Tas. CLXVIL) (Gunn, 26, 1524.) 
Has. Covering shaded precipices near the Acheron River, on the road to Macquarrie Harbour, 
Gunn.—(v. v.) 
Disrris. South-eastern Australia, New Zealand. 
A very distinct species, though varying a good deal in size and form of pinne.—Rhizome stout, often woody, 
and base of the short stipes thickly clothed with long scales. Fronds 8-18 inches high, tufted, very narrow. 
Pinne numerous; of the sterile fronds rounded or linear-oblong, blunt, waved or crenate at the tip, 3-14 inch long, 
lower shortly stipitate, upper adnate by a broad base; top ones confluent: of the fertile fronds fewer, erect, 
