Kirk. — On Lindsaya viridis. 397 



a distinct species, under its original name, evidently without being aware 

 that it was described by Mr. Colenso thirty years ago. I have, therefore, 

 the greater pleasure in appending a description of the species, for the use 

 of local botanists, that it affords me the opportunity of presenting the claims 

 of its discoverer in their proper light. 



Lindsaya viridis. 

 Linds(sa viridis. 



Colenso, Filices Nov^ Novse Zelandife, p. 14 (1845) ; Tasmaniaii Journal, II., 

 p. 174. 

 Lindsaya viridis, Colenso. 



J. G. Baker in Journal of Botany (new series), IV., p. 108. 

 Lindscea trichomanoides, Dryander (in part). 



Hook., Species Filicum, I., p. 218 ; Hook, fil., Fl. Nov. Zel., II., p. 20 : Hand- 

 book N.Z. Flora, p. 359. 

 Lindsaya jnicrojjhylla, Swartz (in part). 



J. G. Baker in Synopsis Filicum, edits. 1 and 2, p. 110. 

 Fronds tufted, G-12 inches long, 1 inch wide, membranous, bright green, 

 stipes 1-3 inches, triquetrous, channelled, shining, naked except a tuft of 

 linear brown scales at the base, frond lanceolate, or lanceolate acuminate, 

 bi- or tri-pinnate, rachis flexuous ; pinnaa ascending, alternate, 1-1^ inch 

 long, obliquely lanceolate, or rhomboid lanceolate ; pinnules simple or 

 deeply lobed, or cut to the base into 2-4 linear cuueate segments, margins 

 truncate, erose, about a line deep and twice as broad ; veins mdistinct, 

 simple or rarely branched. 

 Hah. On wet rocks. 



North Island : Port Fitzroy, Great Barrier Island, plentiful about 

 waterfalls — Mr. Sprinyall I Manukau Harbour, dripping rocks at the Huia 

 Creek, and waterfalls between the Huia and the sea — T.K. Te "Whau — 

 T.K. Mangarewa — Mr. Colenso. Wanganui Eiver — H. C. Field! 



South Island : Nelson, under high rocks in a deep ravine. Massacre 

 Bay — Lyall. Canterbury — Sinclair and Uaast. Hokitika — W. H. Tipler ! 

 West coast of Otago — J. Buchanan. 



The Nelson and Canterbury habitats are stated by Mr. Baker in the 

 " Journal of Botany," on the authority of specimens in the Kew herbarium. 

 I have reason to believe that the supposed Canterbury specimens were 

 collected by Dr. Sinclair at the Huia, and accidentally misplaced, so that 

 the habitat in question requires confirmation. 



Our plant attains its greatest luxuriance on vertical dripping rocks where 

 the fronds grow at a right angle to the face of the rock, and are narrower 

 and more rigid than when growing on a horizontal surface. In the latter 

 situation the fronds are radiating and drooping at the tips, with the pinnae 

 somewhat spreading, so that the frond is relatively wider. The finest 



