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This very interesting, neat, and rather rare species, was detected 

 by us growing on the trunks of different species of Gibotium; its 

 small, black, wiry, creeping roots insinuating themselves into the 

 bases of the decayed stipes of these arborescent Ferns, and frequently 

 covering their whole trunk with its oblong, obtuse, tripinnatifid, ferru- 

 gineous, hairy fronds. 



* * * Frondes pinnatce sen bi-tripinnatifidce (haud pilosce), marginibus serratu vel 



dentatis. 



5. Hymenophtllum Tunbridgense, Sm. 



Eymenophyllum Tunbridgense, Sm. ex Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 147 j Willd. Spec. PI. 5, p. 

 520; Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 159; A. Rich. Bot. Voy. Astrol. p. 91 j 

 A. Cunn. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. 2, p. 369 j Newm. Brit. Ferns, p. 93 ; Hook. 

 Spec. Fil. 1, p. 95. 



E. minimum, A. Rich. Bot. Voy. Astrol. p. 91, t. 14, f. 2. 



Hab. Vicinity of the Bay of Islands, New Zealand : on moist rocks 

 and the trunks of trees, in shady woods. 



In Newman's History of British Ferns, we find a good figure of 

 this species, with which our plant agrees in all essential charac- 

 teristics ; the principal difference between the two consisting in the 

 relative size of the plants, the New Zealand one being considerably 

 the smaller. 



6. Hymenophtllum Wilsoni, Hook. 



Bymenophyllum Wilsoni, Hook. Brit. Fl. ed. 4, p. 390, Engl. Bot. Suppl. t. 2686, 

 & Spec. Fil. 1, p. 95. 



Hab. Orange Harbour, Tierra del Fuego : on rocks and wet, shady 

 banks. 



The habit of the plant, as well as the form and nature of the ser- 

 ratures of the fronds (which are somewhat smaller), are certainly 

 very much like the preceding species ; the frond with the stipe not 



