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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



(No. 5) ; a fifth species. Having the habit of the last, but more bifariously im- 

 bricate. Growing with Gleichenia, on mountain-ridges. 



(Selaginelia, No. 1). Ljcopodium of authors; moss-like. On the ground in the deep 

 mountain-forest. 



Trichomanes (No. 1). Eight inches. Growing on trunks of trees in the deep mountain- 

 forest. 



Hymenophjllum (No. 1). Twelve inches; multifid. On trunks of trees in the deep 

 mountain-forest. 



Dicksonia (No. 1). Having the habit of our D. pilosiuscula, but the sori marginal. 



— (No. 2); a second species; congeneric, but the sori not marginal, and small. 



(No. 3); a third species. Normal; three to five feet high; frond four times 



pinnatisect; fr. marginal. In the mountain-forest. 



Nov. gen. Dicksonioid (No. 1); or compare Polypodium. Epidendric in the mountain- 

 forest; fronds simply pinnate; fructification in marginal cups. 



Vittaria (rigida, No. 1). Epidendric ; pendulous in tufts, three inches to six feet long. 

 Frequent. 



Gen. incert. (No. 1). A tree-fern, thirty feet high; fronds much divided; indusium 

 investing fructification. 



Davallia (compare No. 1 Metia); resembling the Madeira species, but the fronds more 

 divided. On trunks of trees, frequent. 



(No. 2) ; seeming distinct; very small. On trunks of trees in the mountain- 

 forest ; rare. 



( ? pectinata, Hook, No. 3 ; recorded as) Aspidium. Having a rhizoma, and the 



habit of Polypodium vulgare. Creeping on trunks of trees, in the mountain-forest and 

 elsewhere. 



Acrostichum (No. 1). Epidendric in the mountain-forest ; simple, hairy, the fertile frond 

 separate. 



(aureum. No. 2 ; bis Brazil). Fronds simply pinnate, three to six feet high. 



Growing in large tufts in the marshes between Matavai and Papeita. 

 (No. 3). Having the habit of Asplenium. In the mountain-forest; and rarely 



seen in fruit. 



Gen. Acrostichoid, (No. 1). Frond simple, lanceolate, smooth, glaucous beneath ; the 

 fructiferous portion terminal, partially detached, involute. On the Interior mountain- 

 ridge traversed by the route to Lake Waihiria ; rare. 



Schizaea (dichotoma. No. 1); frond flabellately divided. On dry mountain-ridges; seen 

 also on Aimeo. 



Adiantum (No. 1). Two to three feet high; frond bipinnate. In the mountain-forest. 



(No. 2). Among rocks in the mountains ; also seen on Aimeo. 



Lomaria? (No. 1) ; a congener of Chilian, sp. ? In the mountain-forest, growing in large 

 tufts, three to five feet high. 



(Angiopteris evecta. No. 1 ; recorded as) Marattioid. A tree-fern ; but the stout trunk, 

 two feet in diameter, is only two or three feet high ; the fronds, radiating all around 

 to the distance in some instances of eighteen feet, are much subdivided. In the moun- 

 tain-forest. 



( No. 2 ; recorded as) Marattia; perhaps a second species. Herbaceous and small; 



margin of the frond minutely serrulate. Seen also on Aimeo. 

 Lygodium (scandens. No. 1). Twining around trees in the mountain-forest. 



