CoLexso,—On the Botany of New Zealand, 345 
woolly, and hairy; branches deltoid-acuminate, 5-7 inches long, 2 inches 
broad at base, pinnate; pinne petiolate, alternate, very distant, 1 inch 
long, 13 lines broad, deeply pinnatifid to midrib, glabrous and shining and 
dull dark green above, wholly glabrous below, except towards base of 
midrib, and there slightly woolly and scaly, but not hairy, whole plant, 
however, densely woolly and scaly below when young, the lowest pair of 
lobes (or sometimes two) larger, distinctly free and pinnate, lobules adnate, 
broadly elliptic, almost sub-quadrangular, very obtuse and slightly recurved 
at tips, glaucous almost blue beneath, and minutely and regularly punc- 
tulate (stippled) with light fawn-coloured shining dots; veins usually 
1-8 branched, obscure ; capsules 1-2 together, large, white, exposed, sub- 
marginal on upper inner corner of lobule ; hairs short, rigid, dark red, 
fascicled in small scattered bundles; scales large, triangular, acuminate, 
netted and thickly ciliated. 
Hab. Near Hot Springs, centre Great Barrier Islet, Thames, 1882: 
Mr. C. P. Winkelmann. I have also seen barren specimens collected earlier, 
from the west coast, South Island 
Obs.—A species having pretty close natural affinity with G. G. micro- 
phylla, Brown; semivestita, Lab. ; and hecistophylla, A. Cunn. ; but differing 
from them all, and possessing characters which those species have not— 
that are better seen than described in words. 
Nore.—I have ever believed in the specific distinctness of those three 
ferns I have just mentioned; in which I also wholly agree with Mr. J. 
Smith (who had so long successfully cultivated them at Kew), in his last 
two works on ferns, viz., “ Historia Filicum,” p. 389, and “ Ferns, British 
and Foreign," p. 248; as well as with Sir W. J. Hooker in his “ Species 
Filicum.” Those eminent practical botanists, R. Brown and A. Cunning- 
ham, who had ample opportunities throughout many years of observing 
those three ferns they had described in their native habitats, could not pos- 
sibly have been mistaken about them. 
Genus 10. Windsma, peda, 
Lindsaa trilobata, sp. nov. 
Rhizome creeping densely scaly ; scales ramentaceous, largely reticulated 
and transversely barred. Plant erect, cespitose, 7-10 inches high, sub- 
linear-lanceolate acuminate, pinnate, glabrous, dull green, but when young 
of a graceful delicate light green, sub-membranaceous. Stipes 4-6 inches 
long, very flexuous and tough below, obscurely triquetrous, compressed at 
base, deeply channelled and shining (together with rhachis) on the upper 
surface, slightly and sparsely roughish and muricated with little round 
knobs; colour light chesnut-brown. Fronds 8-5 inches long, 6-9 lines 
broad, fertile ones usually the longest and about 20-22-jugate; pinnules 
