200 
New Zealand Ferns 
(77) Var. minor (less). Smaller than the foregoing; 
i to 3 feet high, dark olive-green, sometimes a coppery- 
brown ; fertile fronds usually exceeding the barren ; 
leaflets few, four to eight pairs. In some respects it ap- 
proaches L. vulcanica. It has so different a habit and 
mode of growth from L. capensis that Mr. Cheeseman 
thinks it may prove to be a separate species. 
