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a few inches to a span high, membranous and delicate, with remarkably 
broad and blunt pinne. The development of the involucre is hardly 
of generic value in Woodsia: in the first section (Physematium) it is, 
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habitat this species resembles W. caucasica, J. Sm., a much more 
ab : This beautiful plant was collected by Mr. Wm. Biuerlen, collector for 
the Sydney Technological Museum, at the limit of perpetual snow, in the. Snowy 
Alps between Sydney and Victoria. 
Upon receipt of the specimens of the above plant from Mr. Bauerlen I took 
them to belong to some superb growth of Cystopteris fragilis. My friend Dr. 
ntice, however, i opini ies 0 
Woodsia, a widely spread genus with in Aus- 
tralasia ; oe ¢ that excellent pteridologist I am indebted for the description here 
en.—L.M.B. 
