Gen. XIX, Species 3. Gen. XX, Species 3. 
sharp point, sori very numerous. Common from the Bay ol j 
Islands to Banks’ Peninsula. 
3. P. hispidum. Peculiar to New Zealand and abundanl ; 
throughout the Islands. To be known at once by its finely-cut 
tri-quadri-pinnate frond ; 1 — 3 feet high with long, stiff, spreading 
black hairs, on the rachis and stipes. 
4. P. vestitum. A very handsome fern, with numerous fronds 
1 — 3 feet high, stiff, spreading like a crown from the top of i 
stout rhizome ; fronds bi-pinnate, pinnae long and narrow ; pin- 
nules short, stalked, and deeply cut; rachis and stipes densely 
clothed with large, broad, dark-brown, scales. Mountainous parti 
of the Northern, and throughout the Middle, and Southerr 
Islands. 
A fern has been lately found at Otago which is either a varietj 
of this species or altogether a new one to these Islands. The 
specimens we have seen are about 7 inches long, bright, light-green 
bi-pinnate ; thick, but not stiff, in texture ; with numerous, pale 
brown, narrow, scales; and numerous sori with very prominent and 
large involucra ; pinnae near together, and the upper ones over- 
lapping each other. 
Gen. XX. — Nephrodium. 
1. N. decompositum. Frond a span to 3 feet high, generally 
tri-pinnate ; sori small, numerous ; stipes and rachis pale brown ; ; 
the former, slender and long, in proportion to the frond ; whole • 
plant smooth. 
Var. B. Surface of the frond, stipes, and rachis, downy. 
Throughout the Northern and Middle Islands, as far south as i 
Banks’ Peninsula. 
2. A", velutinum. It is difficult to draw a line between this 
and some states of V. decompositum ; it is generally a larger plant t 
with a tri-quadri-pinnate frond, very broad at the base ; rachis and 
stipes red-brown with the down which covers them, and whichn 
also gives a soft, velvety, appearance to the whole frond. Abundant! 
throughout the Islands. 
3. N. squcimulosum. Very peculiar looking ; frond light! 
green, perfectly smooth, pinnate, with a remarkably long, slender: 
stipes rising from a prostrate, woody, rhizome ; pinnae pinnatifid,!, 
the segments much narrower in the fertile, than in the barren state, 
as the edges then curl over. Bay of Islands and East Coast, j 
Swamp at Mangarei. 
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