NEW HEBRIDES AND LOYALTY ISLANDS. 27 
1564) as well as L. squarrosum (G. Forster. Prody., p. 86) were some 
years ago collected in the same group of islands by Mr. H. Richards, of 
Sydney, who communicated to the author besides many other ferns from 
these islands. The same zealous collector discovered there the Lycopodium 
serratum (Thunb., Flor, Fapgon., p. 341, tab. 38) the most lovely of all 
species; it wasfoundalso in Honolulu by Dr. Hillebrand, an early contributor 
to our museum. Like the last-mentioned species also L. laterale (R. 
Brown, Prodr., 165,) noted in 1824 as New Caledonian already by La 
Billardiére (Ser¢. Nov. Caled., p. 10., tab. 15,) remained unrecorded in 
Dr. Seemann’s work. 
ACROSTICHUM REPANDUM (Blume, Mor. Fave, 309, 
tab. 14 and 15.) 
New Hesripes. F. Campbell, Esq. In the fifth volume of the 
fragmenta Phytographia Australia, p. 139, I referred at some length to 
the characteristics of this fern from Bishop Patteson’s Eramanga collec- 
tion. 
ScuizaEa Forsteri (Sprengel, Anleitnng zur Kenntniss der 
Gewaechse, W1., 175.) 
ANEITYUM. This species is often misunderstood and confused with 
S. dichotoma (Smith, Act. Turin, 1791, p. 419,) from which it differs in 
the more regularly flabellar disposition of the frond-segments, and also 
in the proportionately but not always absolutely greater width of the 
latter, by which means the aspect of the plant becomes very distinct 
when compared with the outline given by the unequal heights of ‘the 
ramifications of S. dichotoma, the sori of that species not being placed 
into an almost equal radius. But a still more important distinction be- 
tween these two plants consists in the arrangemeut of the sori, which are 
strictly pinnate in S. dichotoma, though the lower ones may occasionally 
be bifid or trifid; whereas in S. Fosteri the disposition of the sori is 
fascicular, almost in the manner of that of S. digitata, (Swartz, Synopsis 
Filicum, p. 150, t. 4,) although their length is very much less. The sori 
of S. Fosteri are sometimes reduced to two or three in total number, and 
generally less numerous than those of S. dichotoma, which however vary 
from eight to about sixty, with a length from one and a-half to five 
lines. 
Specimens of S. Forsteri have on this occasion been compared from 
New Caledonia, Fiji, various islands of the New Hebrides, also from Lify 
(Allan Hughan.) Dr. Seemann records it from Tahiti, but of the occur- 
rence of this plant anywhere in Australia I am not aware, although 
this, as well as S. digitata, may be expected to occur in Queens- 
land. 
Schizaea bifida (Swartz, Syzops. Filic., p. 151) embraces merely such 
forms of S. dichotoma, as are reduced from the typical very multifid state 
to but few divisions of the frond; and this reduction may even proceed so 
far as to render the plant utterly branchless, when it assumes closely the 
appearance of the South-African S. pectinata (Sm.. 4¢., from which S. 
