850 Transactions.— Botany. 
S. rubricaulis, sp. nov. 
Plant terrestrial, gregarious, dicecious, each plant simple, suberect, 
stipitate, the largest from 2-1 inch long including stipe, roots short succu- 
lent and hairy; stipe mostly 3-4 lines long (sometimes 9-10), flexuose, 
obsoletely angled, rosy-red, 1-nerved from base of frond to root (sometimes 
2-nerved above), succulent, semi-transparent; frond (largest and fruit- 
bearing) broadly deltoid or fan-shaped in outline, 3 inch long, + inch broad 
at top, mostly 4-parted or sub-digitate, sometimes simply once-forked, 14-2 
lines broad, and very truncate and undulate at base, not decurrent on stipe; 
segments under 1 line broad, nearly linear but broadest at base and narrowest 
at tips, margins serrate, serratures few, small, and irregular, none at tips 
‘+ which are obtuse and retuse, glabrous, transparent, minutely reticulated, 
areole oblong-pentangular regular; colour bright light green ; fructification 
on upper surface of frond, single, on one side below forking of veins of 
forked fronds; involucre a narrow linear-oblong laciniate scale; peduncle 
10-11 lines long, slender; calyptra tubular, 24-8 lines long, whitish, red- 
dish at base, slighly roughish, mouth truncate, laciniate, with rather long 
fimbrie ; fimbrie brown; capsule 1-14 lines long, linear, cylindric, finely 
striate, em and polak shining, black; antheridia on separate and 
much smaller fronds, closely placed on midrib and veins on: the upper 
surface. 
Hab. On shaded clayey banks, Seventy-mile Bush, near Norsewood, 
County of Waipawa, 1880-3: W.C. Glenross, near Napier, 1888 : Mr. D. 
P. Balfour; fruiting in September. 
Obs.—A species having affinity with S. biflora, mihi, and S. incl 
lum, Hook., but very distinct from both. S. biflora bears its fructification 
on the lower surface and this species on the upper. This species grows 
thickly together in little beds or patches, with its fronds always inclining 
one way, half-nodding and overlapping, with its coloured fructification erect 
and some distance above them. Some fronds have three segments, others 
only two, and some a single one, which is then oblong-lanceolate. It is a 
very pretty neat little species. 
2. S. pellucida, sp. nov. 
Plant gregarious stipitate erect, usually single, though sometimes two, or 
even three, are found united by a very short rhizome, 1-13 inches high, 14- 
2} lines broad, commonly once-forked, sometimes single, and occasionally 
(though rarely) 8-branched, single fronds and segments generally linear- 
oblong and broader near tips, pagina of frond broadly decurrent to near 
base, slightly sinuate and waved, particularly below, transparent, margins 
very finely serrate, apices rounded, obtuse or slightly emarginate, nerve 
single, strong, and extending to tips, colour very light green ; stipes very 
