Filices. | FLORA OF TASMANIA. 151 
pubescent, sometimes pilose or ciliated, erect, very coriaceous, linear-lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate, blunt, or nar- 
rowed at the point, quite entire, narrowed into a short winged or margined stipes. Sori oblong or linear, oblique, 
in one series on each side the obscure costa, in small varieties becoming confluent into a mass. Veins wholly im- 
mersed, forked, free. (Name from ypaypy, a line; in allusion to the linear sorus.) 
l. Grammitis australis (Br. Prodr. 146); rhizomate repente squamoso, frondibus dense cespi- 
tosis erectis linearibus lineari- v. obovato-lanceolatis integerrimis obtusis subacutisve glaberrimis rarius 
ciliatis hirsutis pilosisve basi in stipitem brevem angustatis, soris linearibus oblongisve (exemplaribus parvis 
confluentibus).—F/. Antarct. i. 111. G. Billardieri, Willd. Sp. Plant. v. 139; Fl. N. Zeal. ii. 44. G. 
ciliata, Col. in Tasm. Phil. Journ. G. scolopendrina, Bory, in Duperrey Voy. p. 257. t. 30. f.1. (Gunn, 
12, 1545, 1546.) 
Has. Abundant on damp rocks and trunks of trees throughout the Island, ascending to 4500 feet.— 
(v. v.) 
DisrRrB. South-eastern Australia and New Zealand, Fuegia, and the Falkland Islands. 
This is an extremely variable Fern, often ciliated with caducous hairs, especially on the stipes. Alpine speci- 
mens form dense Moss-like patches of small, obovate, coriaceous, blunt fronds, 3 inch high, with confluent sori 
towards the apex. In dry rocky places, again, it assumes the form of a very narrow, rigid, wiry frond. The scales 
on the rhizome also vary extremely in length and colour. 
Gen. XX. GYMNOGRAMMA, Desv. 
Sort nudi, lineares, dorso venarum venularumque siti, demum confluentes. Vena furcate, libere.— 
Rhizoma drevissimum v. nullum. Frondes cespitose, pinnate v. bi-tripinnate. 
Prineipally tropical Ferns, with (rarely simple) pinnate, bi-tripinnate, tufted fronds, having no rhizome or a 
very short one.—Sori naked, linear, occupying the veins and venules, hence often running in lines and forking; also 
covering the spaces between the veins, and then becoming confluent. (Name from yvpvos, naked, and ypappn, a 
line; in allusion to the linear sorus, which has no indusium.) 
1. Gymnogramma ruteefolia (Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 90) ; frondibus cespitosis erectis pinnatis 
villosis, pinnis alternis remotis cuneatis flabellatisve inciso-crenatis lobatis dentatisve.— Hoo. Je. Plant. 
t. 935; Fil. Exot. t. 5; Fl. N. Zeal. ii. 45. G. Hispanica, Cosson, in Ann. Sc. Nat. et Notice sur Plantes 
rares du Midi et de V Espagne. G. subglandulosa, Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 9. Grammitis rutefolia, Br. 
Prodr. 146. Pleurosorus ruteefolius ef P. cuneatus, Fée, Gen. Fil. p. 180. (Gunn, 44, 1547.) 
Has. Common in shaded, dry, stony places.—(v. v.) 
DisrRIB. Australia, New Zealand, Pyrenees of Northern Spain. 
This little plant is abundant in extratropical Australia and Tasmania, and has also been gathered in the 
Pyrenees, but I know of no other countries which it inhabits.—Fronds densely tufted, 3-5 inches long, villous, 
often glandular, pinnate; roots of numerous tufted fibres. Pinne 2-5 lines long, alternate, distant, shortly stipi- 
tate, cuneate or flabellate, more or less incised or lobed, rarely quite entire. Sori linear, scattered, often confluent. 
2. Gymnogramma leptophylla (Desv. Journ. Bot. 1813. t. 26) ; tenella, glaberrima, fragilis, fron- 
dibus cespitosis oblongo-lanceolatis bi-tripinnatifidis, pinnis membranaceis obovato-cuneatis bi-trifidis loba- 
tisve, lobis obtusis, costa flexuosa, rachi marginata inferne nuda stipitegue nitida antice sulcata, soris con- 
fluentibus.—Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 25; Fl. N. Zeal. ii. 45. Grammitis leptophylla, Swartz, Syn. Fil. 
pp. 23 et 218. t. 1. f. 6. 
Haz. Spring Bay, in a cave near the Tamar River, Gunz. 
