Contributions to the Queensland Flora. 23 
DRYOPTERIS, Adans. 
D. albo-villosa, Watts, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., vol. 39 (1914), 
p. 77, pl. 88, fig. 8; Aspidium tenericaule, Bail. (non. Sw.), Queens. 
Agric. Journ., vol. 3, n.s., p. 168. hizome creeping, fairly stout. 
Stipes varying considerably in length according to the development of 
the frond—in specimens examined varying from 3-2 ft. (15-60 em.) ; in 
the young fronds with scattered small brown scales for their whole 
length, the older ones with a few scattered very deciduous scales in the 
lower portion. 
Hab. : Stony Creek (Cairns District), Rev. W. W. Watts; Burleigh Heads, 
J. E. Young. 
Mr. Watts collected his original material in July 1913; Mr. Young 
first gathered specimens in December 1914; and recently Mr. Young 
and myself gathered a good supply of specimens from a small “ scrub ” 
of only a few acres in extent near Burleigh Heads, within five or six 
miles of the New South Wales border. It will probably be found in 
intermediate localities between the only two very distant ones at present 
known, 
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