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New Zealand Ferns 
X. LINDSAYA 
LINDSAYA (to honour Dr. Lindsay, of Ja- 
maica, a writer on the germination of mosses and ferns). 
A very distinct genus of about 60 species, with 3 species 
and 1 variety in New Zealand. Small, bright-green, 
terrestrial ferns. The margins of the leaflets have the 
appearance of being double, the seeds lying between. 
L. TR1CHOMANOIDES 
( 43 ) L. linearis (narrow). A small, very narrow 
fern, growing on poor, hungry land among light scrub; 
a very distinct species. 
Description . — Root slender, creeping, clothed with yellow- 
brown scales. Stalks 2 to 9 inches long, slender, flexuous, wiry, 
dark red-brown, smooth and glossy. Fronds 3 to 8 inches long 
by Jin. broad, barren ones shorter, broader, and less erect than 
the fertile, green to light-green. Seeds forming a continuous line 
along the upper edge of the leaflets. 
Plentiful on clay hills and cold swampy soils from the North 
Cape to the East Cape ; rare and local in the South Island. Sea- 
level to 2,000 feet. 
