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ON SOME PLANTS OF NORFOLK ISLAND, WITH 
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW ASPLENIUM, 
By Baron Von Muetuer, K.C.M.G., M.D., Pu. D., F.R.S. 
THe small far-isolated terrestrial rise, called Norfolk Island, in 
the Pacific Ocean, although considerably nearer to New Zealand 
than to Australia, pertains, as regards its original vegetation, much 
more to the latter than to the former; and moreover, as it is a 
political dependency of New South Wales, it will be best to count 
always as Australian. The indigenous plants of Norfolk Island 
engaged long ago the careful scrutiny of Professor Endlicher, his 
*Prodromus Flore Norfolkiane,’ issued in 1888, resting on drie 
Sparingly have any notes appeared on the plants of the island, so that 
some of the species remain still involved in obscurity. Being eager 
date these for the Flora of Australia, I was fortunate enough, 
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base, slightly incised towards the summit, thence downward 
crenated ; the lower broadly adnate and somewhat oblong-cuneate; 
yelns crowded parallel, divided into 2-4 branches, reaching the 
margin of the frond; sori variable in length, narrow, developed on 
Journan or Borany.—Vou. 22. [Ocroser, 1884.) u 
