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of some New Zealand Ferns. 
-.inmate* obtuse, tripinnatifid, 2—3 inches ; colour, blackish- 
green. Lobes , linear, bifid, sub-retuse, decurrent, entire. 
Involucre , deltoid-ovate, obtuse and toothed, in pairs, ter- 
minal : Valves , gaping. Rachis and Stipe , margined, 
entire; Stipe , somewhat succulent, 1—1! inches. Caudey, 
creeping. 
On rocks and stones, in low places and water- 
courses, in wet woods, shores of Waikare Lake ; December, 
1841. 
Ohso A species apparently very near 11. jlexuosum , R. 
Cunn, ; from which, however, it differs in the involucre, &c. 
The involucre in that species being “ orbiculate”. 
32. H. imrricatum, o. sp. Plant , small, very csespitose, 
creeping, reclining or pendulous, glabrous, glaucescent. 
Frond , sub-pinnate-pinnatifid, oblong or ligulate, very obtuse, 
8 — 15 lines long. Pinnules, sub-flabelliform or .cuneate, 
somewhat falcate, obtuse, sub-sessile, alternate, decurrent, 
much imbricated on each other, lower margins somewhat in- 
volute, lobed ; lobes, secund, 4—5 on each pinnule, linear or 
sub-cuneate, bifid obtuse or slightly emarginate, entire. In- 
volucre, large, orbicular, compressed, terminal on upper seg- 
ments, solitary, half immersed in lobe of frond : Valves , 
large, entire : Receptacle, included. Rachis, sub-flexuose, 
margined. Stipe, cylindrical, filiform, flexuose, glabrous, 
1—2 inches. Caudex, creeping, slightly villous. 
II ab. On edges of rocky precipices, in dry spots over- 
hanging water, at Pataua, near Wangarei, E. Coast ; 1842. 
And on reclining timber, in woods between Wangarei and the 
Bay of Islands ; 1840. 
Obs. A small species, having close affinity with II. secun- 
dum, Rich., and H. semibivalve, Hook. ; differing, however, 
from the former species, in not being “ serrated,” and in not 
possessing an “ oval involucre and from the latter, in its 
frond not being “ lanceolate,” and in not having an “ urceo- 
late involucre with short lips,” as well as from the very pe- 
