162 NOTE ON A COLLECTION OF FERNS FROM QUEENSLAND. 
sat syphylla, on which I first met with it at Bognor, it grew scattered 
r the branches on small tufts. On Codium adherens, on which 
t sated abundantly at a cetone Head, near Swanage, it was 
scattered to the extent of some hundreds of tufts over about a 
square 8 bs the Codium. 
The great abundance of the Becter oe on the lower part of the 
plant give: a peculiar hardness and firmness to this part of the 
a : : 
touch. The upper portion, being less branched and consisting 
of more delicate ramuli, soon becomes torn away, leaving firm 
little tufts, almost globular in ee: attached to ce Coda: The 
sporangia, when mature, be of a dark b colour, and 
contrast strongly with the pale = of the . so that they 
are easily seen under a good lens 
e plant. was first found a Mr. R. V. Tellam at Falmouth, 
growing on Codium adherens. It appears to be in its — condition 
in April and September. Althou gh a specimens 
June are the largest, from that mo to August they ole 
injured by exposure to the heat o mmer, an as are more or less 
most quadrate, sporangia, and the densely es akad almost 
Ex | OF Piare 274,—1, Ectocarpus insignis. 1a, frond, nat. size 
18, ditto, magnified; le, plurilocular sporangium, magnified. — 2. Ectoca arpus 
simplex. 2a, tuft, natural size, parasitica! on Codiwm tomentosum ; 2b, ditto, 
magnified ; 2c, plurilocular spo: rangium, magnified. 
NOTE ON A COLLECTION OF FERNS FROM 
QUEENSLAND. 
By rue Baron F, von Murxuer, anp J. G. Baxer, F.R.S. 
Tue following Ferns formed part of a very interesting collection 
recently made high u up in the Bellenden Ker range, in Quee nsland, 
by Messrs. Sayer and Davidson. As they struck a zone yielding 
dc ceimium, this expedition has made an imp rian 
addition to our knowledge of the Australian flora, so om it seems 
best to place on record the ferns of the collection at on 
Trichomanes parvulum Poir.? — Bellenden Ker Mountains alt. 
5200 ft. idely spread through Tropical Asia and Polyne 
Davailia tripinnata F, M_— Bellenden Ker range, alt. 5200 0 ft. 
A very rare endemic po Seca species, only gathered once before. 
Polypodium australe — Bellenden Ker range, alt. 5200 
