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C0XTRIBUTI0N8 TO THE QUEENSLAND FLORA. 



specimens of it mixed with those of the latter I had brought 

 from Rockingham Hay. Now happily the occurence of T. Fitlicula 

 in Queensland is placed beyond doubt by the excelknt specimens 

 of that species brought from the Johnstone River by Mr. 

 Keftord. It may here be pointed out that the principal dis- 

 tinguishing mark between these two ferns is in the form of 

 indusiura, that of T. Filicula being prominently two-lipped, 

 while that of T. pyxidiferum^ although dilated at the mouth is 

 scarcely lipped. 



Trichomanes Johns^onense, (PI. I.). Sp. Nov. 



Rhizome long, creeping, rigid, knotted, clothed with black 

 bristle-like scales. Stipes somewhat angular, scarcely winged, 

 2 to 4 in. long, of a dingy brown color, the immediate base scaly 

 as the rhizome. Fronds bipinnate with deeply pinnatifid or 

 bipinnatifid pinnules, 3 to 6 in. long, to 4^ in. broad, the 

 rhachis slightly winged, the linear segments very narrow, 

 I -nerved. Indusia few on the lower lateral segments of the 

 pinnule, free, erect, much tapering towards the base, the orifice 

 two-lipped. Receptacle exserted usually long. Hab. Johnstone 

 River. W. R. Kefford, 



In the general appearance of the frond this new species some- 

 what resembles the Jamaica form of T. rigidum, from which 

 however it is readily known by its creeping not tufted habit, and 

 form of indusium. 



SERIES A. 



Tribe PeLVPODiEiE. 



Asplenium resectum. var australiense. 



Rhizome shortly creeping. Stipes close together, slender, 

 4 to 15 in. long, glossy, nearly black. Fronds pinnate, mem- 

 branous, 6 to 13 in. long, with a rather long caudate, serrate 

 apex, lower pinnae 3 or 4 in. long, and about in. broad at the 

 base, from which they gradually diminish in size until they reach 

 the tail-like apex of the frond. Pinnae distinctly petiolulate 

 except at the apex, where the frond becomes pinnatifid, sub- 

 falcate, and the sterile ones often obtuse, but the fertile ones 

 usually with elongated points, superior base, truncate parallel, 

 with the rhachis never auricled, inferior base for a third or more 

 of their length cut off as it were in a curved line, so that the 

 costule here becomes the margin, the whole of the rest of ihe 



