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It seems to liave been first described by the great Linnaeus as Tolypodium 
capense, and according to Thos. Moore, Index Filicum, since then it has received 
from various aiithors no less than a dozen different names. One author even, we 
are told, thinking that the metamorphosed pinna? and hair-like scales at the base of 
tlie stipes were a parasitic growth, gave to it the name of Trichomanes cormophi/llum. 
A. australiS, B. Br. ; Prod. 158 ; ¥\. Austr. vii. 710. Australian 
Fern-tree. 5. 
A. KiObertsiana, F.v.IL; Fragm. v. 54, 117 ; Fl. Austr. vii. 712. 
Slender-stemmed Fern-tree. 3. Trunk slender, smooth, 10 to 12 feet 
high, elongated beyond the last fronds, which latter do not form the 
usual crown, but are somewhat distantly placed on the stem. 
DICKSONIA, L'Her. 
D. Youngise, C. Moore in Bak. Syn. Filic. 461 ; Fl. Austr. vii. 713. 
Hairy-stemmed Fern-tree. 3. 
DAYALLIA, Sm. 
D. elegans, Sw. ; Hook. Spec. Filic. i. 164, t. 43 ; Syn. Filic. 95 ; 
Fl. Austr. vii. 715. Hock Hare's-foot Fern. 1, 2. 
D. pyxidata, Gav.; Hook. Spec. Filic. i. 169, t. 55 ; Syn. Filic. 96; 
Fl. Austr. vii. 716. Common Hare's-foot. 6. 
"D, pedata, Sm.; Hook. Spec. Filic. i. 154, t. 45 ; Gard. Ferns, t. 7 ; 
Syn. Filic. 89 ; FL Austr. vii. 716. Ivv-leaved Fern. 1, 2, 3, 4. 
D. speluncse, Baker; Syn. Fil. lOO"; Fl. Austr. vii. 717. 1, 2 3. 
D. tripinnata, F. v. M.; Fl. Austr. vii. 717. Hairy Fern. 3, 4. 
The fronds, which are clothed with soft white hairs, form a most 
graceful tuft at the end of a very shortly creeping rhizome. The 
plant is abundant upon the damp rocks of dark close gullies. 
Tliis is one of the most lovely of ferns, and until quite lately was only known 
from a single frond brought by Mr. Walter Hill from the Bellcnden-Ker Eange in 
1873. 
YITTARIA, Sm. 
V. elongata, Sioarfz; Hook, and Bak. Syn. Filic. 395; Fl. Austr. 
vii. 718. Grass-leaved Fern. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7. 
V. (Tseniopsis) WOOroonOOran, n. sp. (Name, the aboriginal 
one for Bellenden-Ker.) 3, 4. E-hizome erect or slightly repent, 
clothed with long, light-brown, linear-lanceolate scales. Fronds 
1 to 1^ in. long, 2 or 3 lines broad, coriaceous, spreading horizontally, 
very obtuse, tapering to a very short stipes, bearing minute, scattered, 
setose scales ; veins once forked from a central costa, but both concealed 
by the thick substance of the frond ; sori continuous in a groove more 
or less distant from the margin on the upper part of the frond, but 
never meeting at the apex. 
Hab. : On rocks amongst moss at an elevation of from 4,000 to 5,000 feet, 
Bellenden-Ker. 
In some respects this species approaches V. falcataviwd. V. minor, but is equally 
distinct from both. 
LINDSJ:A, Dryand. 
Ii. CUltrata, Swartz; Hook. Spec. Filic. i. 203; Syn. Filic. 105; 
Fl. Austr. vii. 719. 1. 
L. Praseri, Hook.; Spec. Filic. i. 221, t. 70; Syn. Filic. 112; Fl. 
Austr. vii. 721. 1. 
L. ensifolia, Swartz; Hook. Spec. Filic. i. 220; Syn. Filic. 112 ; 
Fl. Austr. vii. 721. 1, 2, 7. 
