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New Zealand Ferns 
(41) D. novae zealancliae (New Zealand). A very 
handsome species, with wide-spreading finely-cut fronds 
of a lace-like texture, and numerous small seeds in de- 
tached vessels near the margins of the leaflets. 
Description . — Root long, branched, wide-creeping, as thick as 
a quill, clothed with yellowish-brown scales. Stalks 6 to 18 inches 
long, red-brown, firm, erect, rough and bristly at the base, smooth 
and polished above. Fronds 1 to 2 feet long by 6 to 12 inches 
broad. Seeds very numerous, contained in round-shaped vessels. 
North and South Islands, in woods from Mangonui to Fo- 
veaux Strait, but often local. Sea-level to 2,000 feet. 
An elegant and very distinct species with an unusually 
fine-cut frond. It makes a beautiful specimen for the 
herbarium. Mr. Thomson reports it as growing readily 
under cultivation. It is found only in New Zealand. 
Note. — D. FORSTERI is only known from Forster’s speci- 
mens preserved in the British Museum Flerbarium and labelled 
“Dusky Sound.” It has not been found since, and was possibly 
collected in some of the Polynesian Islands, where the genus is 
very abundant. 
