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landscape. The form of its fronds differentiates very 

 much at sub-alpine habitats. It ascends to 5000 feet 

 elevations. 



2. Loniaria lanceolata (Spreng.). — In similar habitats with 

 L. capensis,, but confined chiefly to the fern-tree 

 gullies on the littoral areas, &c, towards Gippsland. 

 It ascends to 4000 feet, and at this elevation the 

 growth is luxuriant. 



Loin aria alpina (Spreng.). — This pretty little fern is very 

 common on the metamorphic and granite areas in 

 the Australian Alps, ascending to the Mount 

 Kosciusko plateaux, where it is found growing in the 

 crevices of the rocks at an elevation of 7100 feet. 



Loniaria flnvialitis (Spreng.). — Not uncommon in deeply 

 shaded gullies, near water channels, and at sources of 

 springs on all the streams flowing from the Australian 

 Alps ; ascends to fully 5 GOO feet, but most luxuriant 

 at the sub-alpine zone where moisture prevails. 



Loniaria capensis (Willd.). — Is one of the most common of 

 all the endemic ferns ; generally most abundant in 

 shaded grassy banks of creeks and gullies. On the 

 Silurian slates, Wentworth River, at an altitude of 

 3000 feet, its fronds attain a length of six feet, 

 with large pinnae four feet long and over one inch 

 broad. 



1. Blechnum cartilagineum (Swartz). — Only observed by 

 me on the Mitta Mitta metamorphic schists at an 

 altitude of 2000 feet, and on the Tambo River banks 

 at lower levels. 



1. Doodia (Woodwardia) aspera (Mett.). — On the Silurian 

 formation in shaded hill sides of Dargo and Went- 

 worth rivers at an elevation of 2000 and 3000 feet : 

 also on the Mitta Mitta sources. 



1. Asplenium Trichomanes (Linn.). — Very abundant on the 



limestone rocks, in the Limestone Creek vaUey, at an 

 elevation of 3000 feet, ascending in the Mitta Mitta 

 sources on the granitic areas to 5000 feet. 



2. Asplenium flabellifolium (Cav). — All OA^er the sub- 



alpine areas in the Australian Alps, not restricted to 

 any formation, growing in rocky crevices, ascending 

 to elevations of 6000 feet. 



3. Asplenium Hookerianum (Colens.). — In similar habitats 



to A. Trichomanes, and at Day's Hill, near Omeo, on 

 intrusive granite areas ; ascends to 4000 feet. 



