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at rather higher altitudes in close mats on boulders and on the rocky 
sides, more especially in secluded gullies. Such ferns as were found to 
in th 
Mr. G. Anderson, of West Oxford, has kindly sent me specimens of both 
H. minimum and also stunted H. Tunbridgense which were growing 
scantily on a rock-face in a creek-bed. As shown in my previous paper, 
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by those of Dr. H. H. Allan, who has made a special study of the plant 
ecology of this area. The higher humidity of Peel Forest as compared with 
that of Mount Oxford is clearly shown in the fact that the ferns which in the 
Oxford forest gullies are altogether rupestral are here abundantly present 
on the mossy creek-sides. The three filmies, H. villosum, H. multifidum, 
and H. peltatum, which are all widely distributed throughout the Eastern 
Botanical District, are here abundantly present both as epiphytes, and also, 
in the case of the two latter, in sheets on the gully-walls. 
adopts altogether the epiphytic station, climbing the shrubby trees in the 
creek-beds to a height of 15 ft., and always overtopping the other two species. 
H. demissum is also present in frequent terrestrial colonies, and H. sanguino- 
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of H. pulcherrimum on the walls of the Kowhai Creek Gully throughout 
Its entire length, and of H. scabrum in large sheets on the gully-sides in one 
or two especially secluded places. The former of these two species, as has 
already been stated, keeps almost entirely to mountain ravines, but yet is not 
an extreme hygrophyte 
in the Peel Forest gullies is a significant feature. H. scabrum is undoubtedly 
a more hygrophilous plant, and its presence is an even clearer indica- 
tion of the constantly high humidity of these gullies. On the forest-reserve 
slopes H. flabellatum occurs scantily on the bases of the stems of the tree- 
fern Hemitelia Smithii, but H. multifidum is the only species which is at 
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