386 Transactions.— Botany. 
Stipa setacea, R. Br. ; 
Stipa petriei of Buchanan’s ‘‘ Manual of the Indigenous Grasses of New 
Zealand,” p. 171, t. xvii., 2, must be referred to this species, which, although 
local, has a wide distribution in Australia. None of the specimens kindly 
sent me by Mr. Petrie have the outer glumes so unequal as represented in 
Mr. Buchanan’s drawing. 
It is not improbable that this species is merely naturalized in Otago, 
and has no claim to be included amongst our indigenous plants. 
Davallia dubia, R. Br. 
In “Transactions of the New Zealand Institute,” vol. xii., p. 346, this 
species is recorded as a native of the Canterbury Provincial District by Mr. 
J. B. Armstrong, but erroneously : specimens of Hypolepis millefolium, with 
the pinnules less divided than usual, having been mistaken for it. 
Asplenium mohrioides, Bory. 
Polystichum mohrioides, Presl. 
I have had the pleasure of examining specimens of this southern fern, 
collected on the Auckland Islands by a sailor during the past year. As 
they differ slightly from Fuegian specimens, I append a full description. 
Fronds tufted, 8 to 5 inches in length, scarcely more than an inch im 
width ; stipes very short, covered with soft brown scales mixed with hairs; 
frond oblong or oblong-lanceolate, pinnate, pinne in about twelve pairs, 
close set and imbricating, the lower shortly stalked, ovate, pinnate oF 
pinnatifid, segments close set, crenate, obtuse; sori crowded, restricted to 
the upper part of the frond, indusium smooth, attached by the centre. 
The young fronds are very chaffy, but the scales speedily disappear from 
the upper portion. The scales vary greatly in size, and are minutely ciliate. 
Specimens from Magellan Straits are much more robust than our plant, 
and frequently attain 1} feet in length, of which the stipes constitutes nearly 
a third. The texture is coriaceous, and the segments larger and less obtuse 
than in the Auckland Island plants. 
In the chaffy habit and membraneous texture our specimens approach 
A. eystostegia, but the lax pinne and acute segments of the latter afford 
easy marks of distinction. \ 
The distribution of this species is very remarkable. It has been cob 
lected in Chili, Magellan Straits, Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands, 
Marion Island, and California. 
