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THE FE-RN WORLD OF AUSTRALIA. 
most successfully cultivated by Mr. Pink, gardener to the Qneens- 
land Acclimatisation Society. 
G-rammitis rutsefolium. A small tufted fern met with on damp 
rocks throughout Australia and Tasmania. 
Antrophyum reticulatum. This fern is found on damp rocks 
in many parts of tropical Queensland. In appearance it resembles 
the plantain or rib-grass. 
Aerostichum conforme, or Deer's tongue fern is another simple 
leaved fern found on rocks about Kockingham Bay, &c. 
Both the species of Platycerium are found on rocks, but are seen 
to greater perfection on trees under which heading they have been 
noticed. 
Group YI. — Scrub Ferns. 
Gleichenia dicliotoma. A large handsome rambling fern found 
on the borders of scrubs, where the soil is swampy, from Port 
Jackson around the coast to Port Darwin. 
Davallia speluncse. A large fern of somewhat rambling habit, 
leaves much divided and flaccid, found in tropical Queensland on 
the borders of scrubs. 
Adiantum formosum. The tall Maiden-hair fern, very abundant 
in Queensland and N. S. Wales and a few places in Victoria. 
Leaves much divided, stalks shiny black. 
Pteris paradoxa. This curious fern has a running under- 
ground stem from which arises leaves varying much in shape and 
size, at times only a few inches high, and bearing a single leaflet, at 
other times bearing from five to nine rather large oval leaflets 
which when fertile have a broad band of seed-patch around their 
edge which adds greatly to their beauty. Common to the scrubs 
of Queensland and N. S. Wales. 
Pteris umbrosa. A handsome fern of mountain scrubs, plant 
tufted rootstock thick leaves tall dark green deeply lobed. Southern 
Queensland and N. S. Wales, and also Genoa Eiver, Victoria. 
Pteris tremula. A fine fern, leaves tall erect, much divided 
stalks poHshed, brown, very abundant in the scrubs of Queensland, 
N. S. Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. 
Pteris quadriaurita. Of tufted growth like the last, leaves of 
much fewer divisions. Found in the scrubs of tropical Queensland. 
Pteris marginata. Eootstock thick raising slightly from the 
ground,^ leaves very large divided into three divisions which are 
again divided into numerous lobes ; one of the most imposing ferns 
of the scrubs of North Queensland. 
Pteris comans. Is a somewhat similar fern to the last, but the 
leaves are much more branched and are not of so succulent a 
nature as that kind. The present land is found in Southern 
Queensland and N. S. Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. 
Asplenium umbrosum, or Caraway-seed fern. A large spread- 
ing plant from a stout short rootstock. Leaves broad generally of 
a succulent nature on the back of which the seed patches are in the 
form of caraway-seeds covered over with a thin skin. 
