THE FEEN WORLD OP AUSTRALIA. 
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Trichomanes vitiense, on bark of scrub trees, tropical and 
extratropical, leaves skinlike, oblong or lobed small. 
Aspidium ramosnm. A beautiful pinnate leaved fern of wide 
range, found from the Illawarra to Endeavour Kiver. The seed 
patches covered by a kidney shaped skin. 
Polypodium tenellum. A south Queensland fern somewhat 
similar to the last from which it is at once known by the absence of 
covering to seed patches. 
Polypodium scandens. A much more robust fern, leaves simple 
or deeply lobed. Found from the Gellibrand River in Victoria to the 
Maroochie in Queensland. 
G-rammitis ampla. This is the most imposing occupant of the 
stems of trees in our tropical scrubs. Leaves of£en more than 
three feet long, very broad and deeply lobed. 
Acrostichum sorbifolium var. leptocarpum. Leaves very 
long pinnate of a deep green colour and numerous leaflets, of two 
forms fertile and sterile, often found with the last which it equals in 
elegance. 
Group IL — Crbeksidb Ferns. 
Marattia fraxinea, and Angiopteris evecta, are two superb 
ferns found in close deep gullies usually near running water in the 
tropics. The immense succulent leaves and large globose scaly base 
of these ferns are one of the most imposing sights of tropical 
vegetation. 
Triehomanes rigidum. This dark green bristle fern may be 
often met bordering the running water of mountain creeks in 
Queensland. It has also been gathered in N. S. Wales. 
Dicksonia davallioides. This beautiful fern is of very dehcate 
texture, although the fronds often attain two or three feet in height. 
They arise from an underground running stem, the fern is not very 
common in Queensland, but is to be met with along some of the 
sandy creeks, for instance, Enoggera. It is found more abundantly 
in S. Wales and has also been met with in Victoria. 
Davallia dubia. This is a much more robust plant than the 
last having more harsh foliage, it differs also in having a short 
thick rootstock, and is of very common occurrence along sandy 
creeks and hillsides. It is also common to Tasmania, Victoria and 
N. S. Wales. " 
Adiantum ^thiopicuin, Ooffliiioil maiden4miiV tJOMmoa 
along creoksides* 
Lomaria Fatersjoni, oftin found on mountain mmk hmk^^ ka?ei 
narrow tapering and gomctiiiicy deeply lobed fmm a short reotgtook, 
Jjomaria diaeolor. This beautlfui fern has much the habit of a, 
ti'ee fern, stem one foot high^ leaves a light green^ deeply cut into 
rounded lobes almost to the polished black midrib] only Queensland 
habitat at present known T'ern Creek, Maroochie and Kockinghani 
Bay, 
