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several years, but only last year, for the first time, found it bearing fruit in 
great profusion. 
I have honoured myself by naming it after a disciple and fellow- 
countryman of Linneus—Dr. Sparrman—who was one of the earliest 
botanists in New Zealand, accompanying Captain Cook and the two Forsters 
hither on his second voyage of discovery. Of Sparrman, his fellow- 
voyager Dr. Forster says in his preface to his classical Genera Plantarum :— 
* Sparmannus plantas describebat, Filius easdem delineabat.—Verum dum 
Sparmannus plantas accuratius examinaret, filius et ego ssepe in consilium 
vocati in commune consulebamus, etc.,”—and yet nothing in New Zealand 
has ever been named after him !4 
HyMENOPHYLLUM PUSILLUM, 
Plant both epiphytical and terrestrial; rhizome red, wiry, creeping, hairy; 
hairs red. 
Frond 4-8 lines long, oblong-ovate, obtuse, pinnate, 4-5 jugate, bearing 
long, red, broad, curved scales on its veins on both surfaces; pinne petiolate 
free, mostly opposite, lobed or sub-pinnatifid on the upper side only, lower- 
most pair always opposite and generally 8-lobed; rhachis not winged, save 
a very little at top, lobes very small and confluent at apex ; stipe 3—7 lines 
long, capillary, flexuose; stipe and rhachis bearing scattered red chaffy 
scales; segments or lobes, obovate-elliptic, not linear, very obtuse or trun- 
cate, semi-transparent, largely serrate or laciniate, the teeth or laciniations 
very long for size of plant and wholly composed of the fine texture of the 
frond and often revolute never spinulose, generally five teeth at the apex of 
a lobe; involucres terminal and supra-axillary on the uppermost pinus, 
obovate, divided about halfway down, not compressed, and bearing red 
hairy scales ; lips toothed ; receptacle included; sori red. 
Hania trunks of living trees, and on the earth at their bases, in 
dense shady forests throughout the North Island, but sparingly. First 
detected (barren) on Te Ranga mountain, head-waters of Waikare, Bay of 
Islands, 1836; again (but barren) at the head of the Wairarapa Valley, 
,1892 ; and again, and in fruit, in the forests, west slopes of Ruahine moun- 
tain range, near the head-waters of the River Manawatu, 1878-9-80 ; gener- 
ally found on Olea sp. 
This little plant is nearly allied to Hymenophyllum tunbridgense, H. revo- 
lutum (mihi)? H. minimum, and other of the smaller Hymenophylle ; but 
on close comparison with them (living specimens) it will be found to be 
abundantly distinct. To me it appears as a necessary needful species re- 
. + Vide “ Transactions N.Z. Inst., Vol. I., ** Essay on the Botany of the North Island, 
N.Z.," pp. 55, 56, for more, 
} Tasmanian Journal Natural Science, Vol. L, p. 186, 
