Kink.— On Lindsaya viridis. 397 
a distinct species, under its original name, evidently without being aware 
that it was described by Mr. Colenso thirty years ago. I have, therefore, 
the greater pleasure in appending a description of the species, for the use 
of local botanists, that it affords me the opportunity of presenting the claims 
of its discoverer in their proper light. 
Lindsaya viridis. 
Lindsea viridis. 
47 deis Nove Nove Zelandis, p. 14 (1845) ; Tasmanian Journal, II., 
Lindsaya Sn, Colenso. 
J. G. Baker in Journal of Botany (new sir IV., p. 108. 
Lindsea trichomanoides, Dryander (in part). 
Hook., Species Filicum, I., p. 218; Hook. fil., Fl. Nov. Zel., IL, p. 20: Hand- 
book N.Z. Flora, p. 359. 
Lindsaya microphylla, Swartz (in part). 
J. G. Baker in Synopsis Filicum, edits. 1 and 2, p. 110. 
Fronds tufted, 6-12 inches long, 1 inch wide, membranous, bright green, 
stipes 1-8 inches, triquetrous, channelled, shining, naked except a tuft of 
linear brown scales at the base, frond lanceolate, or lanceolate acuminate, 
bi- or tri-pinnate, rachis flexuous; pinne ascending, alternate, 1-14 inch 
long, obliquely lanceolate, or rhomboid lanceolate; pinnules simple or 
deeply lobed, or cut to the base into 2-4 linear cuneate segments, margins 
truncate, erose, about a line deep and twice as broad; veins indistinct, 
simple or rarely branched. 
Hab. On wet rocks. 
North Island: Port Fitzroy, Great Barrier Island, plentiful about 
waterfalls—Mr. Sprinyall! Manukau Harbour, dripping rocks at the Huia 
Creek, and waterfalls between the Huia and the sea—T.K. Te Whau— 
T.K. Mangarewa—Mr. Colenso. Wanganui River—H. C. Field! 
South Island: Nelson, under high rocks in a deep ravine, Massacre 
Bay—Lyall. Canterbury— Sinclair and Haast. Hokitika—W. H. Tipler ! 
West coast of Otago—J. Buchanan. 
The Nelson and Canterbury habitats are stated by Mr. Baker in the 
“Journal of Botany," on the authority of specimens in the Kew herbarium. 
I have reason to believe that the supposed Canterbury specimens were 
collected by Dr. Sinclair at the Huia, and accidentally misplaced, so that 
the habitat in question requires confirmation. 
Our plant attains its greatest luxuriance on vertical dripping ioiii» where 
the fronds grow at a right angle to the face of the rock, and are narrower 
and more rigid than when growing on a horizontal surface. In the latter 
situation the fronds are radiating and drooping at the tips, with the pinnæ 
somewhat spreading, so that the frond is relatively wider. The finest 
