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A strange variety of L. discolor (var. bipinnatisecta) with seg- 

 ments cleft again deeply into lobes has been discovered in the 

 Dandenong-Eanges of Australia felis by Mr. D. Boyle. 



The absence of the allied. genus Blechnum in New Zealand and 

 its dependencies is remarkable. 



LOMARIA CaPENSIS. 



Willd. Spec. Plant, v. 291 ; Linnsea, 1847, 256 ; Kawson & Pappe, Enum. Filic. 

 Cap. 27 ; L. striata, W. 1. o. ; L. lineata, W. 1. c. ; L. Chilensis, Eaulf. 

 Enum. FUic. 154; Hook. Gen. Filio. t. Ixiv. 13 ; L. procera, Spreng. Syst. 

 Veg. It. 65 ; Hook. Icon. 427 ; J. Hook. Elor. Antarctic, i. 110 ; Flor. Not. 

 Zeel. i. 27, t. 75 ; Flor. Tasmanic. i. 142 ; Hombr. & Jacquem. Voy. au 

 Pole Sud, t. 2, E ; Hook. Spec. FUic. iii. 22-28 (with extensive synonyma) ; 

 L. minor, Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 291 ; L. latifoUa, Colenso in Tasm. Phil. 

 Journ. accord, to J. Hook. 1. c. ; Osmunda Capensis, Linn^ Mantissa 

 Plant. 306 ; O. procera, Forst. Prodr. 414 ; Onoclea Capensis, Swartz, Syn. 

 Filic. Ill ; Blechnum prooerum, Sw. Syn. Fil. 115 ; LabiH. Nov. HoU. 

 Plant. Specim. ii. 97, t. 247 ; Willd. Spec. Plant, v. 415 ; Asplenium pro- 

 cerum, Bernh. Act. Erfurt. 1802, 4, fig. 1 ; Stegania procera, E. Br. Prodr. 

 158 ; Achill. Rich. Voy. de I'Astrol. 1. 13, the fertile frond ; S. minor, K. 

 Br. 1. c. ; Parablechnum procerum, Presl, Epimel. 109. 



Common in forest-ground of Chatham-Island. In Continental 

 Australia not rare from St. Vincent's Gulf to New South Wales, in 

 some of the interjacent localities very abundant (conf Linnsea, 1847, 

 561), but as yet not found in South-West Australia, where seemingly 

 the genus Lomaria is not represented. 



Decidedly the tallest of all Australian congeners and less exclu- 

 sively a forest-plant than most other species, ascending to alpine 

 elevations. Hence this noble fern might easily be naturalized in 

 Middle Europe. 



Adiantum fobmosum,' 

 E. Br. Prodr. Flor. Nov. Holl. 155 ; Ach. Eich. Voy. de I'Astrolabe, i. 88 ; 

 A. Cunn. in Hook. Compan. to the Bot. Mag. ii. 366 ; Eaoul, ChoiS de 

 Plant, de la Nouv. Zel. 38 ; Hook. Spec. Filic. ii. 51, t. 86, B ; J. Hook. 

 Fl. Nov. Zeel. ii. 21. 



Varietas Cunninghami. 



A. Cunninghami, Hook. Spec. Filic. ii. 62, t. 86, A ; J. Hook. Flor. Nov. 



Zeel. ii. 21. 



Rare in Chatham-Island on rocky damp places. 

 Specimina with slightly downy raches gathered in New Zealand 

 obliterate the demarcation between A. Cunninghami and A. formo- 



