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judged to be a variety of L. procera. A plant the writer has under cultiva- 

 tion has nine fronds (barren and fertile) exliibiting the peculiar habit from 

 which it was named. 



L. 2^atersoni, Spreng. 

 Near springs or rills in gullies and outskirts of bush on Banks Penin- 

 sula ; in similar positions in the Malvern Hills it may be found growing in 

 the greatest luxuriance, fronds giving a measurement of above 3 feet in 

 length. 



Asplenium tricJionianes, Linn. 

 In crevices of rocks in the gorge of the Ashburton river, on the lower 

 spurs of Mount Herbert. 



A. flahelli/olkim, Cavan. 

 The finest form of this elegant fern that has fallen under the writer's 

 notice was obtained amongst sheltering rocks in the dry bays of Lake 



Ellesmere. 



A. falcatum, Lam. 



Fine specimens on Podocarpus sjncata, near Akaroa. 



Aspicliimi aculeatum, Swartz. 



Often found growing as a parasite, most frequently on aged specimens 



of Griselinia littoralis (broadleaf) in the bush, lymg high on Banks 



Peninsula. 



Gymnogramnia, leptojohylla, Desv. 



Abundant about the rocks in Port Cooper up to the head of the harbour. 



This delicate fern can be cultivated with little trouble ; it is produced freely 



wherever the seed has been permitted to ripen ; in crevices amongst moist 



rocks or stones it soon becomes established. 



Gymnogramme alpina, sp. nov. 



Ehizome dark brown, stout, ascending, clothed with brown scales. 

 Fronds silvery-green above, oblong, narrow, 1-3 inches long, half inch 

 broad ; pinnate, densely villous, soft, thick in substance. Stipe silvery- 

 green or brownish, tufted, stout or slender, densely villous. Pinnse 

 petioled, except the last three, in pairs or alternate, deltoid or cuneate, with 

 two or three blunt irregular- shaped lobes, both sides densely villous, veins 

 flabellate ; sori ovate, numerous, covering a large portion of the under- 

 surface of pinnse. 



A hardy perennial, growing in crevices of rocks on steep facings of the 

 Southern Alps at an elevation of some 3,000 feet. In this habitat it with- 

 stands the rigours of winter, the severity of which is quite unknown to the 

 dwellers near the coast. It is probably the most densely villous of all the New 

 Zealand Filices ; in its soft woolly texture and silvery-grey colours it bears 

 close resemblance to several plants of our alpine flora. Compared with G, 



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