16 NEW FERNS FROM LORD HOWE’S ISLAND. 
sion of tissues will be as’ I have just indicated into dermatogen, 
Apres and even tissues, all possessing certain forms of cells 
common, as all arise from an originally similar tissue. 
NEW FERNS FROM LORD HOWE’S ISLAND. 
By J. G. Baxer, F.L.S. 
Durine the recent expedition to Lord oa s Island from 
Australia ra study the eclipse, two interesting new ferns were dis- 
covered, of which specimens have been sent to Rabhnd by Mr. Charles 
oore, of eee se are— 
PTERIS) M , Baker: frondibus magnis oblongo- 
deltoideis Siginustisde, iki imbricatis oblongo-lanceolatis, in- 
ferioribus centralibus paulo minoribus leviter deflexis, pinnulis 
lanceolatis, segmentis late “Ngalatia vel infimis subcuneato-flabellatis 
apice a crena is, venulis in segmentis 3—5. 
’s Island, summit of Mount Gower. eer expidetion, 
procure and aie rond a foot and a half long 
oy a foot ena chong, aie ee in texture to the Pe. 
nown — ‘both surfaces and rachises qui eanes s and nak 
cope the lowest spreadin ng taper these latter rather shorter 
and a little deflexed, as in hymenop hylloides and Fraseri, not distant 
and dwindling down to a very small size very gradually, as in superba. 
innules so close as to be rather imbricated, lanceolate, the most 
developed an inch long, sessile, nearly equally rocrgenee or subtruncate 
at the ena cut down near rly to = midrib into ec ontiguous erecto- 
cutting is the same as that 
Ayinionophyllotdes, but that aha the whole sites separate pinne, and 
especially the ternary segments are on a much larger scale, and the 
shape of the pinne and segments quite different, In hymenophylloides 
a 
