HorLowav.—Studies in the New Zealand Hymenophyllaceae. 81 
and H. ferrugineum—the two former still exist in Peel Forest, and the latter 
would find a very suitable home along with T. venosum on the abundant 
tree-fern stems in the temperate humid gullies of the Peninsula. 
have to thank Professor A. Wall, of Canterbury College, for drawing 
my attention to the fact that H. rarum, H. sanguinolentum, and H. Tun- 
bridgense all occur on the damp, shaded southerly faces of the Mount 
Pleasant lava-rocks overlooking Lyttelton, at an altitude of about 1,500 ft. 
The two former I found to adopt there the same stunted mat form in which 
they are found in Westland as high epiphytes, and H. Tunbridgense also was 
number of the species of Trichomanes, and, generally speaking, of those 
members of the family, both lowland and upland, which are especially 
hygophilous. 
D. Comparison with Westland. 
with H. villosum and H. multifidum. No doubt in the humid gullies of 
Banks Peninsula, on account of the more equable climate, the Hymeno- 
phyllaceae were epiphytic to an even greater extent than at Peel Forest 
or Waimate. 
