Fi ?w ry ] WawiWn. Mow i>f f irvwa.- AVv S^Var^ r*fr. **> 



small hairs It grows about the eastern highland; (from the Daitdenong 

 Ranges to Mount Buffalo and Mount Ellcry) and in \ r e\v South Wales. 



A lint\rris A. Cwui. c\ Bci^ll?- — Lwn'es narrow-linear, mostly .3-6 cm. long, 

 L-l S nun. wide, the margins £ revohttc, the upper 3111 fact ttuN and minmcly 

 scabrous-; v«stilun* a deine mat of minute hairs. This specie* ii recorded Erotfti 

 Mount Macodr.n, Ov»:tu River and Mitchell Kiver, bW it is trmhi in Mew 

 ^outh Walts 



A, ojf*crifohn R Mno-ll. ex Klatt. — Leaves linear, 2*u mnt. wkk, the nUr- 

 g.»sis strongly recurved, ihe upper surfaces aspptous wltlfl mffflCRftft Urije ^m I 

 small lubcrdc*, ; restitute a loose mass of comparatively Urge hnir*. It is 

 widespread m the State, bong plentiful in the Grampian an a, m rfjf moun- 

 tain's of central Victoria ami in East Gippslaiui- 



A\ rnwsijoffa W. V. Blakcly — Leaves 2-3 cm. long and about 1..S mm. wide. 

 narrow-linear, the margins rooluie, the upper surface shiny and completely 

 smooth; the vcrtifur^ * tight felry mar, Ji t * re *l tided in tliii State to llic 

 Snowy River valley (Sllggan Buggan and the gorges eas-t of Butchery Ririgo-}. 

 Ttui Virrorian occurrence 01 the Specie* ha* smaller leases than does the type 

 form from New Suuth Wale*. 



[t wish to thank Mr. T. H. Willir: nf Ine renjfljnai IJeitar'Urt vf VicttX'ii ftyr 1ii5 

 intere>l ;ti this research ami kir hi* (Vrtg&ttfiaii -of 1H1- Unlit; diagnoses in ttir paver.] 



A NfW COMBINATION IN PUUKOSORUS 



By Makv 1>. Tjnuau* 



rf.iWKQSOIWS SUBGl ANOVLOSVS 



<{Houk. et Grev.) Tiwlalc tt. rotnlv 



\j putMcd 001 to me some years ago by I)r, R, Plchi-Sermolft, there *r<- 

 two inccics or Pieurosorus in Australia, namely the conmtou P. rutijolins 

 I.K. Br.) Fee and another specie* which Appears to have been generally over- 

 looked m Australian fern literature Hooker and GreviMe j» their /rou/r.c 

 Pfiityflt* (1827), t. yO, described (tyutuoyrawuta mhghu(fulo40 I'roin a speci- 

 men collected by D. Fraser in Australia (without specific locality). It is 

 usually a larger fe.ni than P. rutifolins which S»j characterised by finer, lunger, 

 Jcrru^mous, non-glaivJular-tippcd baits on the lamina, rhar.his and stipes. In 

 P. s;<-bfjliht'du1osu.<! these hairs are ferruginous but glandular-tipped. Roth 

 ipfcie*. have a Wide distribution in Australia, being found under rocks and 

 in roclc crevices. /'. rutifoiius occurs in the drier parts of Victoria, Mew Suuth 

 Wale>. QuwnBUild, Tasmania. South Australia. Western Australia and tin- 

 Mortlicri) 'J>rn'tory, whereas T have examined specimens of P. subgf audit laxux 

 from sill of these States except Tasmania. 



I have not sees the type of P. subghtntiutosux, but the illnstratiuns of both 

 species (especially the lamina! hairs) ill Hooker and CreviMe's fcours Filicum, 

 Plate? 90 and 91, are excellent. 1 have examined the holotype ut P. rufilohus, 

 mmtely "il'erwrnt, Rif<lrJt {Cuvi*> ( Tasmania, K f^rowu Ko. 7, 1802-05" 

 (RM.) which has t* - o specimens with glandular-tipped hairs mounted by 

 mislake on the idtnc Shod 1" ill!! JJutyitf at the Kew Herbarium the Jaminal 

 hairs art uon* glandular. A tyiucal specimen of P. rutifotins \va< collected by 

 J„ A. 5%, Tohmon and V., P ConsMble at Beaumont Hill, 36 miles west of 

 Cobar, K.SJK. on June% 1955 (NSW. P7230 ; K. ; US.; UC . T.. | RM ). 

 The onlv Victorian tpecuuens of th& species which J have seen, were 

 Collected at Euroa. Lencva and Ml. Wychcproof. 



Reprc:sentative specimens o» P subtfhvdulosu? are as follows: New South 

 Wales— Slopes of Ml. -Naman, Warrumlmngle Mts-, SJjM fr, alt., untler 



•NartdTfel llethaiiuni nf New SoulU W-jtc;. 



