CorxNs0.— Description of new Ferns, 807 
fine raised black points; main rhachis deflexed from stipe, longitudinally 
suleated above ; stipes and rhachis densely hairy when young; hairs, patent, 
red-brown. 
Pinne, 15 inches long, 4-5 inches broad, about 8 inches apart on 
rhachis, petiolate, triangular, broadest near base, acuminate ending in a 
very fine point, densely covered with red-brown strigose hairs above on 
rhachis of pinne. 
Pinnules, sub-opposite, distant, 2-24 inches long, broad, linear-oblong, 
broadest near base, acute, sub-falcate, petiolate, glabrous above on midrib, 
hairy below and also on midrib of segments; barren pinnules pinnatifid, 
Fertile pinnate. 
Segments free not crowded, sessile, alternate, oblong, 3 lines long, 1 line 
broad, obtuse, apices rounded, slightly and sparingly serrate, sub-falcate, 
lowermost one on upper side of pinnule regularly overlapping secondary 
rhachis; fruitful segments very distant, regularly crenulate through con- 
traction by sori, auricled, lowest pair petiolate; costa prominent above ; 
veins, 5-jugate, forked and simple. 
Sori numerous, crowded, occupying the whole of the segment, small, 
globular, biseriate, 8-10 to a segment. . 
Involucre, outer valve sub-cucullate, margin entire, about 4 line long, 
remaining green-coloured when dry. 
The buds, shoots, and young plants of various ages and sizes, bursting 
forth from the stem of this fern-tree, was a curious and pleasing sight—and, 
to me, a novelty. They were scattered around the main stem, 8-12 inches 
apart, and at different heights, but all within 2-3 feet from the base; from 
them I gathered fronds of various sizes, the largest 12 inches long,—one, 
7 inches, and one, 4 inches long, exclusive of stipe; these are all very soft 
in foliage, bipinnate only, with stipes and main and secondary rhachises 
exceedingly hairy with long patent jointed hairs,—quite a miniature of the 
large fronds of the parent plant. Some of the smaller shoots like big buds, 
apparently just bursting, possess most delicately fine, long, and soft hairs, 
almost curly, coloured and jointed like those of parent plant. 
This species of Dicksonia, in general appearance, somewhat resembles 
D. squarrosa, but wants the black trunk and stipes, the harsh and dry 
pointed and mucronate coriaceous foliage, and black hairs and bristles of 
that species, as well as the persistent hanging of its old withered fronds 
around its trunk, which is almost characteristic,—besides the much smaller 
fronds and small round sori, and the peculiar habit of bearing shoots and 
buds on the trunk of this species. It has the slenderest trunk, as well as 
the most airy and light appearance in its crown of fronds, of all the New 
Zealand Dicksonie known to me. 
