CoLenso.—On the Botany of New Zealand, 853 
base of the stipe ; stipe 8-6 lines long, slender, rosy-red ; fructification on 
midrib upper surface, nearer the apex than the base ; involucre small, trifid, 
laciniate, laciniations acuminate sharp ; calyptra substipitate, stout, 1} lines 
long, much fimbriated at top, dilated and laciniate at mouth; peduncle 
slender, short, 3-4 lines long ; capsule large, nearly 2 lines long, linear, 
obtuse, truncate at base, light-brown ; cellules pretty regular, suborbicular- 
pentagonal ; antheridia under small deltoid jagged scales, in short linear 
masses on the midrib near the top of separate fronds, that are usually 
narrower and longer. 
Hab. High and dry woods near Norsewood, 1878-1882: W.C. Pohue, 
high lands near Petane, Hawke's Day, 1883: Mr. A. Hamilton. 
Obs.—This small and simple species very much resembles some of the 
linear unbranched fronds of S. subsimplew, to which species it is closely 
allied ; and indeed it was for some time by me taken for it, but on close 
examination and dissection I found several differences: e.g., this species is 
never branched or forked, has generally much more attenuated fronds with 
a keeled and coloured midrib, and longer stipes that are rosy red, its 
involucral scale is sharply laciniate, and, beyond all, it differs greatly in the 
form of its cellules, which, in S. subsimplex, are distinctly *' hexagonal." It 
has caused me much study to determine its specific difference, for, though I 
have collected plenty of specimens, there are but few among them in full 
fruit. 
6. S. megalolepis, sp. nov. 
Plant terrestrial, gregarious, stipitate, erect, rising from a slender and 
long rhizome, roots stoutish, white, closely intermixed, each frond about 1 
inch apart on rhizome; frond fan-shaped, flat, slightly waved, 6-8 lines long, 
4-7 lines broad at top, divided into two main branches that are generally 
again once or twice divided ; segments broadly linear, sub-imbricate, broadly 
decurrent on upper part of stipe, margins entire, apices sub-rotund and 
emarginate ; stipe 6-9 lines long, slender, sub-flexuose ; whole plant very 
pale green, delicate and highly transparent, cellules orbicular ; involucre on 
under surface, immediately above lowest fork of veins, very large, apparently 
double (?)—the outer scale being more than 2 lines broad at top, extending 
quite across lower forkings, orbicular-reniform, loose and slightly waved, 
margin quite entire, the inner scale, as seen through the outer, small, 
green, and much laciniate, with a tumid swelling at the base—sometimes 
two involucral scales on a frond, the upper one smaller and above the 
upper fork, nerves throughout strong and extending quite to tips, and 
biserial in the upper part of stipe; antheridia under minute jagged scales, 
in scattered circular spots and tubercles, at forkings of veins and on both 
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