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Order FILICES. 
As the lithograms of Queensland ferns will be issued simul- 
ery with the present Bulletin, and there being no descriptions 
with the plates, I give here all that is wanting to complete the 
Giceature on the-subject to date. 
OPHIOGLOSSUM, Linn. 
vulgatum, var. gramineum, Bail. Rhizome tuberous. 
foe rom 1 to2 in - high ; the sterile portion narrow-lanceolate, 
} to Zin. long; fertile spike 2 ; to 3 in. long. 
Hab.: Frequently met with on stony ridges in Southern Queensland. 
0. vulgatum, var. minutum, Bail. Rhizome tuberous. Fronds 
to 3 in. high, the sterile portion petiolate, lamina roundish or almost 
thomboidal, “seldom attain ning a diameter of 8 lines; fertile spike 
narrow, sharply pointed, about $ in. long. 
Hab.: On grassy land about the Herbert River. 
‘LINDSAA, D 
L. ensifolia, Sw., var. nateropiiyils, Benth. In this variety, 
although not constantly so, the pinne are divided wholly or partially 
into numerous small rounded pinnules or segments. 
Hab.: Northern Queensland. 
bare Swartz. tae 
A. eumundi “a A (So named from locality where 
| fronds thus very numerous, and not unlike the moss Cyathophora 
fieridioides, 1 to 2 in. long, with the pinne not close, and only 1 or 2 
i From t 
_ "ie towards each end, the apical ones being only about line in 
meter, and the basal ones but little. larger, all sult bane yaad 
who semana ss prominent a ricle on ne upper side ; 
| tale vein Reh nearer the lower ae the upper margin, a 
__ © often shortly forked. —_ large for the size >of the trond 
‘ebicular reniform, persisten i 
2 TP Rai Condamine, C CO. HT: Pram Tallebudgera, J. F. Shey — 
é diley, and J. Foe. Dinbion ds. 
The a seine specimens were very imperfect. oy therefore ~ aeons with 
By » Waiting for the more perfect spe pope 
thi — to Plate 126 of my Lithograms i will re seen readily ee very distinct 
rom all others of the genus 
: _Pteroldes var terminans, Ba il., Rhizome creeping. 
tall. The veins more or less covered by a short, somewhat 
“coloured hoary pubescent and simple white hairs. Pinne 
