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slender stipes glabrous. Pinnules or segments of tlie barren fronds 
oblong, obtuse, attached by their broad base, the larger ones scarcely 
V half-inch long, quarter-inch broad and usually distinct, the upper 
ones smaller and confluent, the lower gradually smaller, short, broad, 
and at times distant. Fertile fronds often much longer than the 
barren ones, the segments two to five lines long, one to one and 
a half lines broad. Found in the mountainous parts of Victoria and 
Tasmania and probably N. S. Wales. 
L. fluviatilis, Spreng. Rhizome shorty thick, scaly. Fronds 
six inches to over one foot long, pinnate. Pinnae or segments of 
barren fronds oblong, rounded at the end, attached by their broad 
base, the upper ones, half to one inch long, three to four lines broad, 
all distinct, the rhachis more or less scaly. Segments of fertile 
fronds six to eight lines long, one to one and a half lines broad. 
Found in the deep shady valleys of Gippsland, Victoria, and 
Tasmania. 
L. Fullageri, F. v. Muell. Rhizome caudiciform one to two 
feet high, thickened by the bases of old stipites to three or more 
inches. Fronds mostly about one foot long, pinnate. Pinna3 of 
the sterile ones oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, obtusely auriculate at the 
base on each side, the large ones, one and a half to two inches long, 
and half an inch broad, the upper ones shorter and confluent, the 
lower smaller distant and more auriculate, all attached by their 
broad base, the margins and forked veinlets ciliate, the rhachis 
densely ferruginous, hispid. Pinna3 of fertile fronds one to two 
inches long, scarcely one line broad. Only so far as at present 
known found on Lord Howe's Island, N. 8. Wales. 
L. capensis, Willd. Pickled Cabbage fern. Rhizome thick, 
short, and scaly, but in many of the Queensland swamps forming a 
caudex of several feet in height. Fronds j)innate, the pinn^ of the 
■sterile ones broadly lanceolate, very obhque at the base and attached 
only by the midrib, the lowest pair not much smaller or very rarely 
one small pair lower down, otherAvise very variable, fronds 
from one to four feet long, bearing numerous pinna?, from three to 
six inches long, one inch broad, or tjie whok> frond not over a foot 
long and much smaller pinna^. Rhachis scaly or glabrous. Fertile 
fronds equally variable with the sterile, bearing pinnae of from one 
to six inches long, often one half of the frond only fertile. Queens- 
land swamps, north and south, and wet places of all the other 
colonies and Tasmania. 
L. euphlebia, Kunze. Rhizome thick and woody, slightly scaly, 
ascending to one or more feet. Fronds pinnate, often about two 
feet long. Pinnee distant, lanceolate, three to eight inches long, 
half to three-quarter inch broad, contracted at the base and some- 
times tapering to a short petiolule, the uppermost one rarely sessile 
or slighly decurrtnt, the lowest not much smaller, the rhachis glabrous. 
Piniui3 of the fertile fronds narrow-linear, three to six inches long. 
The only Australian habitat, Rockingham Bay, Queensland. 
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