342 
New Zealand Ferns 
Abundant in swampy places throughout the Dominion. Sea- 
level to 2,000 feet. 
The ultimate segments in this species are even smaller 
than in G. circinata; their globular form giving them the 
appearance of a string of minute green beads. It is found 
also in Eastern Australia, New Caledonia, and Malaya. 
( 140 ) Var. hecistophylla (the leaf with baskets). 
Usually i to 3 feet high. The angle at which the fronds 
fork is wider, in the average, than in either G. circinata 
or G. dicar pa. Fronds spreading horizontally, green to 
dark-green above, sea-green to white beneath. Stalks 
and midribs densely woolly and scaly. Much the same 
habitat as G. dicarpa. 
