TAB, LXXXIIL 
Asplenium adiantoides, Raoul . 
car . minus. Hook, jil 
Flaccidum parvulum, frondibus ovatis ovato-lanceolatisve laxe 
bipinnatis rarius pinnatis, pinnulis paucis distantibus 
inferioribus saepius longe stipitatis rhombeis basi oblique 
cuneatis crenatis varie lobatisve glaberrimis, soris margine 
remotis, rhachibus gracilibus parce paleaceis glabratisve, 
stipite basi squamoso. 
A. Hookerianum, Colenso in Tasm. Phil. Journ. 
Hab. Northern and Middle Islands of New Zealand, Kerikeri 
River, Cunningham. Banks Peninsula, Raoul , Dr. Lyall. 
Bay of Plenty, East Coast and Interior ; Rev. W. Colenso , 
n. 78. 295. 1941. 
A very beautiful, but like all its congeners, an extremely 
variable fern, allied to the elegant A. Magellanicum of Fuegia. 
A very much larger state, a foot long, of this species is figured 
in M. Raoul’s fine work, Choix de Plantes de la Nouvelle 
Zelande,” Tab. 1 . We have taken the opportunity of figuring 
two other states of this interesting plant in the present work, 
(Plate 84 and 77) premising that we have little doubt but 
that they will be raised to specific rank by some Pteridologists, 
and would have been by ourselves, had we not ample proof 
amongst our extensive suites of specimens from many parts 
of the Island of their all being fronds of one species, which is 
almost as protean as the well known Asplenium flaccidum , 
Forst. Mr. Cunningham’s specimens are much smaller than 
these figured here, simply pinnate, with stalked, 3-lobed 
or three-partite, very broad pinnae, inch across. — J.D.H. 
Fig. 1 . Pinnule of pinnate variety, and f. 2. Pinnule of 
bipinnate state of A. adiantoides var. minus : — both magnified. 
