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New Zealand Ferns 
Hypolepis Petrieana. A much smaller plant, and less 
hairy than H. tenuifolia, usually growing in the open. 
Description . — Root slender, creeping, thickly covered with 
rusty scales. Stalks 4 to 6 inches long, rigid, moderately stout, 
yellow, or the lower part brownish, somewhat rough, but free 
from hairs. Fronds 12 to 14 inches long by 8 to 10 inches broad, 
light-green. Midrib sparingly clothed with delicate hairs. Seeds 
one, rarely two, on each ultimate division of the leaf. 
North Island: Mangonui, Whangarei, Great Barrier, Port 
Charles (Coromandel), and Otorohanga (Waipa County), Ken- 
nedy Bay (Coromandel), Lower Waikato, Rotorua, Te Whaiti. 
