Colexso. — On the Botany of Neio Zealand. 345 



woolly, and hairy ; branches deltoid-acuminate, 5-7 inches long, 2 inches 

 broad at base, pinnate ; pinna petiolate, alternate, very distant, 1 inch 

 long, 1-J lines broad, deeply pinnatifid to midrib, glabrous and shining and 

 dull dark green above, wholly glabrous below, except towards base of 

 rnidrib, and there slightly woolly and scaly, but not hairy, whole plant, 

 however, densely woolly and scaly below when young, the lowest pair of 

 lobes (or sometimes two) larger, distinctly free and pinnate, lobules adnate, 

 broadly elliptic, almost sub-quadrangular, very obtuse and slightly recurved 

 at tips, glaucous almost blue beneath, and minutely and regularly punc- 

 tulate (stippled) with light fawn-coloured shining dots ; veins usually 

 1-3 branched, obscure ; capsules 1-2 together, large, white, exposed, sub- 

 marginal on upper inner corner of lobule ; hairs short, rigid, dark red, 

 fascicled in small scattered bundles ; scales large, triangular, acuminate, 

 netted and thickly ciliated. 



Hab. Near Hot Springs, centre Great Barrier Islet, Thames, 1882 : 

 Mr. C. P. Winkelmann. I have also seen barren specimens collected earlier, 

 from the west coast, South Island 



Obs. — A species having pretty close natural affinity with G. G. micro- 

 phylla, Brown ; semivestita, Lab. ; and hecistophylla, A. Cunn. ; but differing 

 from them all, and possessing characters which those species have not — 

 that are better seen than described in words. 



Note. — I have ever believed in the specific distinctness of those three 

 ferns I have just mentioned ; in which I also wholly agree with Mr. J. 

 Smith (who had so long successfully cultivated them at Kew), in his last 

 two works on ferns, viz., " Historia Filicum," p. 339, and " Ferns, British 

 and Foreign," p. 248 ; as well as with Sir W. J. Hooker in his " Species 

 Filicum." Those eminent practical botanists, B. Brown and A. Cunning- 

 ham, who had ample opportunities throughout many years of observing 

 those three ferns they had described in their native habitats, could not pos- 

 sibly have been mistaken about them. 



G-enus 10. Lindssea, Dryander. 

 Lindsaa trilobata, sp. nov. 



Rhizome creeping densely scaly ; scales ramentaceous, largely reticulated 

 and transversely barred. Plant erect, caaspitose, 7-10 inches high, sub- 

 linear-lanceolate acuminate, pinnate, glabrous, dull green, but when young 

 of a graceful delicate light green, sub-membranaceous. Stipes 4-6 inches 

 long, very flexuous and tough below, obscurely triquetrous, compressed at 

 base, deeply channelled and shining (together with rhachis) on the upper 

 surface, slightly and sparsely roughish and muricated with little round 

 knobs ; colour hght chesnut-brown. Fronds 3-5 inches long, 6-9 lines 

 broad, fertile ones usually the longest and about 20-22-jugate ; pinnules 



