440 SUBAISTTARCTlC ISLANDS OF NEW ZEALAND. [Systematic botany. 



tropical Australia, and Tasmania ; Juan Fernandez ; South America, from Chili 

 southwards to Fuegia and the Falkland Islands ; Kerguelen Island and the Crozets ; 

 Tristan d'Acunha ; Amsterdam and St. Paul Islands.) 



From the above sketch of the distribution of this species it will be seen that 

 it occurs in almost all lands between S. lat. 35° and 55°. This makes it all the more 

 remarkable that it has not yet been detected in Auckland or Campbell Islands. 



Lomaria capensis, Willd. 



Osmunda capensis, Linn., Mant., 306 (1771). 0. procera, Forst., Prodr., n. 

 414 (1786). Stegania procera, R. Br., Prodr., 153 (1810). Lomaria 

 capensis, Willd., Sp. Plant., v, 291 (1810). L. procera, Spreng., Syst. 

 Veg., iv, 65 (1827); Hook, f., Fl. Antarct., i, 110 (1844). Blechnum 

 capense, Schlecht, Adumb. Fil., 34, t. 18 (1832). 



Auckland, Campbell, and Antipodes Islands : Not uncommon, especially on 

 the banks of streams, and in a stunted form ascending to a considerable height on 

 the hills ; Hooker, Kirk, Cockayne, Aston, Chambers ! (New Zealand, from the 

 Kermadec Islands southwards ; Australia and Tasmania ; Malaysia ; Polynesia ; 

 South America, from Chili to Mexico ; South Africa.) 



Attains its extreme southern limit in Campbell Island, for in America it does 

 not advance further south than Juan Fernandez and southern Chili. In Fuegia, 

 the Falkland Islands, and Tristan d'Acunha its place it taken by the closely related 

 L. Boryana, Willd. {L. tabularis, Mett.). 



Lomaria fluviatilis, Spreng. 



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

 Syst. Veg., iv, 65 (1827) ; Hook, f., Fl. Nov. Zel., ii, 28 (1855). Blech- 

 num fluviatile, Salom., Nom., 115 (1883). 



Auckland Islands : Rata forest near Camp Cove, Carnley Harbour ; Cockayne ! 

 (Throughout New Zealand ; extra-tropical Australia ; Tasmania.) 



This was first gathered in Dr. Cockayne's visit of 1903. 



Asplenium obtusatum, Forst. 



Asplenium obtusatum, Forst., Prodr., n. 430 (1786) ; Hook, f., Fl. Antarct.. 

 i, 108 (1844), in part ; Homb. & Jacq., Voy. au Pole sud, Crypt., 

 t. 1, f. B., small specimen (1853). 



The Snares, Auckland and Campbell Islands, Antipodes Island : Not uncommon 

 on rocks near the sea ; Hooker, D'Urville, Kirk, and others. (Coasts of New Zealand, 

 from the Kermadec Islands southwards ; Australia and Tasmania ; Polynesia ; 

 Juan Fernandez ; South America, from Peru to southern Chili.) 



A. obtusatum is here restricted to Forster's original plant, with short obtuse 

 pinnae. Hombron and Jacquinot's plate, cited above, exactly represents a small 

 state of this, and I have seen specimens collected by Mr. Chambers on Campbell 

 Island which also match the type. 



