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Flor. Insul. Norfolk. 9 ; N. glabellum, A. Cunningh. in Hook. Compan. 

 to the Bot. Mag. ii. 367 ; Metten. Aspid. 69 ; Aspidium Shepherdi, Eunze 

 in Linnsea, xxiii. 230 ; A. acuminatum, Lowe, Filio. 6, 1. 11 ; Metten. Aspid. 

 p. 71 ; LSistrsea acuminata, Th. Moore ; L. davallioides, Brackenr. Filic. 

 Wilk. Unit. Stat. Explor. Exped. 202 ; L. atro-virens, J. Smith, Catal. 

 Cult. Ferns, 59. 



Common in woods of Chatham-Island. Not rare in New Zealand ; 

 occurring also in a few places of Tasmania ; restricted in Australia 

 to Gipps-Land, New South Wales and the southern part of Queens- 

 land ; also found in Norfolk-Island and some of the Pacific groups. 



Bynoe's plant was most probably gathered in New South 

 Wales. 



Nephrodium hispidum (Hook. Spec. Fil. iv. 150) mediates the 

 transit of this genus to Aspidium. That fern may be sought for yet 

 in the Chatham-group. 



Aspidium cohiaceum. 



Swartz, Synops. Filic. 57 ; Schkuhr, Farrnkr. t. 50 ; E. Br. Prodr. 148 ; Willd. 

 Spec. Plant, t. 268 ; Metten. Filic. Hort. Lipsiens. 89 ; Endl. Prodr. Flor. 

 Insul. Norfolk. 8 ; Hook. Spec. Filic. iy. 32 ; A. Cunninghami, Colenso 

 in Tasm. Phil. Journ. accord, to J. Hook. 1. c. ; Polypodium adiantiforme, 

 Forst. Prodr. 449 ; P. ooriaceum, Swartz, Prodr. Descript. Vegetab. Ind. 

 Occid. 133 ; Sw. Flor. Ind. Oocid. iii. 1688 ; Polystichum coriaceum, Schott, 

 Gen. Fil. ; J, Hook. Flor. Nov. Zeal. ii. 37 ; Fl. Tasm. ii. 148. 



On tree-ferns of Chatham-Island not common. Not unfrequent 

 in New Zealand, Tasmania and ranging in Australia from the vi- 

 cinity of Cape Otway eastward to New South Wales. 



The indusia are generally early seceding, arid seemingly not 

 always developed. 



Aspidium aculeatum. 



Swartz, Synops. Filio. 53 ; Sohkuhr's Farrnkr. t. 39 ; Smith, English Flora, 

 iv. 277 ; Koch, Synops. Flor. Germ, et Helv. iii. 976 ; Benth. Handb. of 

 the Brit. Fl. 628 ; Hook. Spec. Filic. iv. 18-22 (with extensive quotations 

 of literature) ; A. vestitum, Sw. Syn. Filic. 53 & 254 ; Schk. Farrnkr. t. 

 43 ; A. lobatum, Sw. 1. c. 53 ; A. proliferum, E. Br. Prodr. 147 ; Sond. & 

 Muell. in Linnsea, xxv. 718 ; A. coriaceum var. acutidentatum, A. Eich. 

 Voy. de I'Astrol. i. 71 ; A. venustum, Hbmbr. & Jacquem. Voy. au P61e 

 Sud, t. 5 ; J. Hook. Flor. Antarctic, i. 106 ; A. pulcherrimum et A. Wait- 

 karense, Colenso in Tasm. Phil. Journ. accord, to J. Hook. l.-o. ; A. Eichardi, 

 Hook. Spec. Filio. iv. 23, t. 222; Polypodium aculeatum, Linn^ Spec. 

 Plant. 1552 ; P. vestitum, Forst. Prodr. 445 ; P. silvaticum, Colenso in J. 

 Hook. Flor. Nov. Zeel. ii. 41, t. 81 ; Polystichum aculeatum, Eoth. Flor. 

 Germanic, iii. 79; Beddome, Ferns of South India, 41, 1. 121 ; P. vestitum, 



