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  Transactions. 
  — 
  Botany. 
  

  

  pair 
  of 
  piunre 
  ; 
  pinna) 
  twice 
  pinnatifid, 
  unequally 
  rhomboid, 
  the 
  lowest 
  

   pair 
  divided 
  nearly 
  to 
  the 
  mid-rib 
  ; 
  the 
  basal 
  pinnules 
  spreading; 
  capsules, 
  

   terminal, 
  small, 
  half 
  immersed, 
  divided 
  nearly 
  to 
  the 
  base, 
  hairy 
  when 
  

   young, 
  margins 
  entire 
  or 
  erose. 
  

  

  Hah 
  : 
  North 
  Island 
  — 
  near 
  the 
  source 
  of 
  the 
  Orua, 
  Kuahine 
  Mountains 
  ; 
  

   2,000 
  to 
  3,000 
  feet, 
  H. 
  Field, 
  junr.! 
  South 
  Island— 
  Okarito, 
  A. 
  Hamiltoyi. 
  

  

  The 
  affinities 
  of 
  this 
  fern 
  are 
  with 
  H. 
  (Erugiaosum, 
  Carm. 
  [H. 
  subtUissi- 
  

   mum, 
  Kunze), 
  and 
  with 
  H. 
  flahellatum, 
  Swartz. 
  From 
  the 
  former 
  it 
  differs 
  

   in 
  the 
  deltoid 
  frond, 
  in 
  the 
  form 
  of 
  the 
  pinnte, 
  in 
  the 
  long 
  and 
  slender 
  

   stipes, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  delicate 
  texture 
  and 
  partial 
  hairiness. 
  It 
  resembles 
  

   the 
  latter 
  in 
  the 
  shape 
  of 
  the 
  pinnules, 
  but 
  differs 
  in 
  the 
  stipes 
  being 
  longer 
  

   than 
  the 
  frond, 
  which 
  is 
  never 
  ovate 
  or 
  linear, 
  and 
  the 
  pinnules 
  are 
  never 
  

   crowded. 
  In 
  habit 
  our 
  plant 
  differs 
  widely 
  from 
  both 
  ; 
  in 
  texture 
  and 
  

   colour 
  it 
  resembles 
  Trichomancs 
  hjallii. 
  

  

  The 
  stipes, 
  rachis, 
  costa, 
  veins 
  and 
  involucres 
  are 
  usually 
  hairy, 
  at 
  

   least 
  when 
  young 
  ; 
  but 
  hairs 
  are 
  rarely 
  produced 
  from 
  the 
  surface 
  of 
  the 
  

   frond 
  ; 
  in 
  H. 
  ceruginosum 
  they 
  are 
  developed 
  from 
  both 
  surfaces, 
  and 
  from 
  

   the 
  margins 
  of 
  the 
  frond 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  from 
  the 
  veins 
  ; 
  they 
  are 
  usually 
  

   straight, 
  and 
  never 
  deciduous 
  as 
  in 
  our 
  plant, 
  my 
  oldest 
  specimens 
  of 
  

   which 
  have 
  very 
  few 
  hairs. 
  The 
  valves 
  of 
  the 
  capsule 
  are 
  minutely 
  erose 
  

   in 
  my 
  young 
  specimens 
  from 
  the 
  Kuahine 
  mountains, 
  but 
  this 
  character 
  is 
  

   not 
  developed 
  in 
  the 
  mature 
  specimens 
  from 
  Okarito. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  was 
  originally 
  discovered 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Field 
  iu 
  the 
  Euahino 
  

   mountains, 
  and 
  I 
  was 
  indebted 
  to 
  Mr. 
  H. 
  C. 
  Field 
  of 
  Wanganui 
  for 
  a 
  single 
  

   young 
  frond 
  as 
  far 
  back 
  as 
  the 
  early 
  part 
  of 
  1877, 
  but 
  it 
  was 
  not 
  until 
  tho 
  

   receipt 
  of 
  a 
  supply 
  of 
  specimens 
  from 
  Mr. 
  Hamilton, 
  that 
  I 
  was 
  able 
  to 
  

   satisfy 
  myself 
  of 
  its 
  specific 
  validity. 
  

  

  DESCEIPTION 
  OF 
  PLATE 
  XIX., 
  Fig. 
  A. 
  

   llijmenophyllmn 
  rttfescens, 
  nat. 
  size. 
  

  

  1, 
  1. 
  Pinna 
  with 
  capsule 
  from 
  old 
  frond, 
  enlarged. 
  

  

  2, 
  2. 
  Fiuna 
  and 
  capsule 
  from 
  young 
  frond, 
  enlarged. 
  

  

  Art. 
  LXXV. 
  — 
  Xotcs 
  and 
  Suggestions 
  on 
  the 
  Vtilization 
  nf 
  certain 
  neglected 
  Xeiti 
  

   Zealand 
  Timbers. 
  By 
  T. 
  Kirk, 
  F.L.S. 
  

   [Bead 
  before 
  the 
  Wellington 
  rhllosophical 
  Society, 
  0th 
  November, 
  1878.] 
  

   Theee 
  is 
  probably 
  no 
  other 
  British 
  colony 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  vegetable 
  products 
  

   are 
  wasted 
  to 
  so 
  great 
  an 
  extent 
  as 
  in 
  New 
  Zealand. 
  I 
  do 
  not 
  now 
  refer 
  to 
  

   tho 
  wanton 
  destruction 
  which, 
  in 
  the 
  North 
  Island 
  especially, 
  accompanies 
  

  

  