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from Biisbane, it is also plentiful on the trunks of trees but here 
the fronds are much shorter. It has also been met with in N. S. 
Wales at the Richmond and Macleay River scrubs. 
XXL — LiNDs^A, Dryander. 
Rhizome creeping or shortly horizontal. Fronds pinnate or 
compound undivided in some species (not Australian). Sori in a 
continuous or interrupted line under the margin of the frond, with 
a continuous indusium opening along the upper or outer margin, 
the margin of the frond sometimes slightly dilated and assuming 
the appearance of an upper valve. Veins forked, free or anasto- 
mosing. Named in honor of Mr. John Lindsay, author of 
Observations on the Germination of Ferns. 
• L. linearis, Sw. Rhizome creeping, scales brittle. Fronds 
pinnate, very fragile, linear, stipes and rhachis usually glossy black 
•from a few inches to over one foot "high. Pinnse sessile flabellate, 
obliquely cuneate or almost dimidiate three to four lines broad. 
Sori forming a continuous line under the outer margin. Queens- 
land habitat Moreton Bay, Eight-mile Plains, common in crevices 
of rocks, Stanthorpe. N. S. Wales, Port Jackson, Blue Mountains^ 
New England and Hastings River. In Victoria this plant is said 
to be plentiful in the dry forests of the Western districts, also in 
Gippsland, Abundant in heathy places in Tasmania. Onkaparinga 
River, South Australia, and is one of the few ferns found in 
Western Australia. 
L. dimorplia, Bail. Queensland Ferns. Rhizome a tufted knot, 
densely clothed with bright glossy golden scales. Fronds usually 
numerous in a close tuft, pinnate, sterile ones two to three inches 
high, with broad flabellate pinnae lobed with short obtuse lobes. 
Fertile fronds much longer, the stipes and rhachis slender and pale 
colored, pinnae broad and short divided to the base bipartite, reflexed^ 
the broad tops touching each other giving a lunate appearance to the 
pinna. Sori broad lobed. Queensland, Eight-mile Plains, Kedron 
Brook, and near the top of one of the Glasshouse Mountains. 
L. cultrata, Sw. Rhizome tufted or very shortly creeping. 
Fronds pinnate three to six inches long, tufted stipes and rhachis 
slender pale colored. Pinnse near together in the upper part of the 
frond the lowest pair often distant, very oblique or half-reniform, 
three to four lines broad, the rounded outer margin entire, with the 
sorus and indusium continuous or slightly lobed or denticulate 
interrupting the sori. Common on damp rocks in Northern 
Queensland, also found on the rocks about Maroochie. 
L. fiabellulata, Dryand. Rhizome creeping. Fronds six to 
twelve inches high, usually bipinnate two or more of the lower 
pinnae being again pinnate and two to four inches long, the upper 
pinnae entire, but sometimes the whole frond simply pinnate or in 
other specimens more or less tripinnate. Pinnules oblique in. the 
simply pinnate part flabellate or almost rhomboid often half inch 
