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ASPIDIUM, Swartz. 
A. COrdifolium, Swartz; Syn. Eilic. 45; El. Aiistr. vii. . 754. 
Tuberous Eern. 1. 
A. exaltatum, Swartz; Syn. Eilic. 45 ; El. Austr. vii. 754. Coast 
Eock Eern. 1, 2, 5, 7. 
A. ramOSUm, Beauv.; El. Ow. et Ben. ii. 53, t. 91; El. Austr. 
vii. 754. 1, 2, 3. A climbing fern, the fronds often distant, pinnae 
distant, over 1 in. long, the upper edge crenate and auricled at the 
base. 
A. ramoSUm, Var. lineare. l, 5. Ehizome pubescent, very 
slender, climbing like ivy up to stems of trees and shrubs, often 10 or 
12 feet. Eronds crowded, linear in outline, 6 to 15 in. long and 
seldom exceeding 1 in. broad ; pinnae 30 to 40 on each side of the 
rhachis, not exceeding 8 lines long in the centre of frond and much 
smaller towards each end, obliquely oblong, the upper margin slightly 
crenulate, with a short blunt auricle at the base, lower margin nearly 
straight, base parallel with the rhachis ; terminal pinna lanceolate or 
somewhat rhomboidal; veins once forked; sori on the end of the 
upper branch usually at a distance from the margin. 
Amongst the many forms of A. ramosum that have been considered distmct by 
botanists I cannot find one that fully agrees with the present, so think it better to 
give it a distinctive name. During the past few months, while on and about 
Bellenden-Ker, I have found it always the same in both habit and form, and even 
when growing with the normal form, is at once detected ; the fronds being always 
long and narrow, and crowded so closely on the slender rhizome as to appear massed 
together. 
A. moUe, Swartz; Syn. Eilic. 49; El. Austr. vii. 756. Soft Shield 
Eern. 1, 2. 
A. moUe, var. didymOSOruS, Benth.; El. Austr. vii. 756. 
Twin-seeded Eern. 5, 7. 
A. COniluenS, Metten. in Linnsea xxxvi. 125 ; El. Austr. vii. 757. 
1, 2,3. 
A, deCOmpOSitum, Spreng.; Syst. iv. 109 ; El. Austr. vii. 758. 3. 
A. acuminatum, var. VillOSUm. 4. This delicate fern is 
met with only, so far as at present known, on the summit of Bellenden- 
Ker. It has a shortly creeping rhizome, more or less covered at the 
end with broad brown scales ; the stipes are slender, 3 to 6 in. long, 
clothed with short soft hairs, and a few scales at the base. Eronds 
somewhat deltoid, 3 to 7 in. long and broad ; rhachis and midrib 
densely clothed with rather long soft white hairs. Sori scanty on the 
few fronds gathered. 
POLYPODIUM, Linn. 
P. aUStrale, Metten.; Hook. Spec. Eilic. iv. 167; Syn. Eilic. 322; 
El. Austr. vii. 762. 4. 
P. fuSCOpilOSUm, F.v.M. and Baker in Britt. Journ. Bot. xxv. 
163. 2, 3, 4. 
P. Hookeri, -Smcter. ; Hook. Spec. Eilic. iv. 171; Syn. Eilic. 319; 
El. Austr. vii. 763. Black-haired Eern. 2, 3. 
p. albosetosum, n. sp. (Name referring to the white bristle-like 
hairs in the sori.) E-hizome erect or very shortly creeping, the blunt 
apex covered by broadly ovate, imbricated, light-brown scales. Eronds 
tufted, ail under 2 in. long and 3 lines broad, tapering from a broad 
