438 SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS OF NEW ZEALAND. [Systematic Botany. 



Hypolepis millefolium, Hook. 



Hypolepis millefolium, Hook., Sp. Fil., ii, 68, t. 95b (1858) ; T. Kirk 

 Trans. N.Z. Inst., xxiii, 441 (1891). 



Campbell Island : Kirk, Laing ! Chambers ! Antipodes Island : Kirk, Cockayne. 

 (New Zealand, mountain districts from the East Cape southwards.) 



The apparent absence of this species from the Auckland Islands is remarkable. 



Pteris aquilina, var. esculenta, Hook. f. 



Pteris esculenta, Forst., Prodr., n. 418 (1786). P. aquilina, Linn., Sp. Plant., 

 1075 (1758), var. esculenta, Hook, f., M. Nov. Zel., ii, 35 (1855). 

 Pteridium aquilinum, Kuhn in Deck. Reis. Bot., ii (1879). 



Campbell Island : Hooker ? {Pteris aquilina in some of its forms is almost 

 cosmopolitan ; var. esculenta is widely spread in the Southern Hemisphere.) 



I do not find any specimen of this in the collections made by the expedition ; 

 nor was it gathered by Kirk in 1890 or Cockayne in 1903. It is inserted in the 

 enumeration on the strength of Hooker's statement in the Handbook, where he says, 

 " Abundant throughout the islands, from the Kermadecs to Campbell Island." But 

 he does not mention it in the "' Flora Antarctica," and it is quite possible that the 

 locality found its way into the Handbook by an accidental slip of the pen. 



Pteris incisa, Thunb. 



Pteris incisa, Thunb., Fl. Cap., 171 (1800) ; Hook, f., Handb. N.Z. Fl, 

 364 (1864). P. vespertilionis. Lab., Plant. Nov. HolL, ii, 96, t. 245 

 (1806) ; Hook, f., Fl. Antarct., i, 110 (1844). Histiopteris incisa, 

 J. Sm., Hist. Fil., 295 (1875). 



Auckland, Campbell, and Antipodes Islands : Not uncommon, usually not far 

 from the sea ; Hooker, Kirk, Cockayne, Aston, Tennant, Laing ! Chambers ! (Uni- 

 versal through the tropics and South Temperate Zone.) 



This reaches its southern limit in Campbell Island, for although it stretches as 

 far south as southern Chili, Juan Fernandez, and Tristan d'Acunha, it is not found 

 in Fuegia, the Falkland Islands, or Kerguelen Island. 



Lomaria Patersoni, Spreng. 



■Stegania Patersoni, R. Br., Prodr., 152 (1810). Lomaria Patersoni, Spreng., 

 Syst. Veg., iv, 62 (1827). L. elongata, Blume, Enum. Fil. Jav., ii, 201 

 (1828) ; Hook, f., Fl. Nov. Zel., ii, 29 (1855). Blechnum Patersoni, 

 Mett., Fil. Lips,, 64, t. 4 (1856). 



Auckland Island : Scrubby forest at the head of the North Arm of Carnley 

 Harbour ; Cockayne ! Aston ! Tennant ! (Philippine Islands ; India and Malaysia 

 southwards to Polynesia ; Australia and Tasmania ; New Zealand.) 



Now recorded for the first time from the southern islands. L. Patersoni was 

 formerly separated into two varieties^ or even species, according to the different views 

 of authors — first, the typical Patersoni, which was believed to always have simple 



