THE FERN WORLD OF AUSTRALIA. 
11. 
Pteris incis-a, or bat's wing fern, is a tali light coloured fern 
often seen an the western side of hills in southern Queensland and 
throughout the other Australias, with Tasmania. 
Doodia caudata. A most common fern in Queensland, is also 
plentiful in N. S. Wales, Victoria and Tasmania, very various as 
to form as will be seen by referring to the botanical part of this 
work. 
Polypodium punctatum. Very like Hypolepis and for wliich 
it may be mistaken, if the seed patches be not observed, is a tall 
soft hairy fern with running rootstock. Queensland, N. S. Wales, 
Victoria and Tasmania. 
Group V. — Eock Ferns. 
G-lelclienia dicarpa. Stem wiry trailing over damp rocks, 
leaves large intricately divided, covered with small round leaflets. 
Petrie's quarries near Brisbane to Rockingham Bay in Queensland, 
also in many parts of N. S. Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. 
Trichomanes parvulum. A beautiful moss-like bristle lern, 
found on many wet rocks in shady places in Queensland, as 
Enoggera, Maroochie and Trinity Bay range. The plant is also 
found on trees. 
Tricliomanes pyxidiferum Leaves transparent about two inches 
long from a closely matted running stem, found covering the rocks 
in the beds of creeks in the ranges of tropical Queensland. 
Triohomanes parviflorum. Leaves very much divided into 
narrow lobes, whole leaf three to six inches high, found on the damp 
recks of Rockingham Bay, Queensland. 
Hymenopliyllum javanieum. The frilled stalked film fern. Is 
found on damp rocks also at Rockingham Bay, in Queensland, 
Blue Mountains, N. S. Wales, and in several parts of Victoria and 
Tasmania. • 
Hymen ophy Hum tunbridgense or Tunbridge film fern. This 
well known and favourite British fern seems only to have been met 
with in one locality in Queensland, Mount Lindsey, but it is more 
plentiful in N. S. Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. 
Davallia pedata. This lovely creeping fern clothes the rocks 
somewhat like- ivy, where it is found, but it is not very plentiful. 
Mount Graham, Herbert River, Rockingham Bay, Queensland. 
Lindssea linearis. A brittle pinnate, narrow, erect leaved fern 
often found growing in the crevices of rocks at Stanthorpe and 
Moreton Bay in Queensland. Is more general in all the other 
Australian colonies and Tasmania. 
Lindssea cultrata L. flabellulata and L lobata, are pretty close 
growing ferns which are found on damp rocks in several parts of 
tropical Queensland. The first also grows on the rocks at 
Maroochie. 
Adiantum lunulatum on rocks, Rockingham Bay. This Maiden- 
hair fern is simply pinnate, leaflets large, somewhat crescent-shaped. 
The leaf fiequently bearing a young plant at its end. 
