Trichomanes .] 
I. FILICES. 
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stout, unbranched. Involucres sunk in short lateral segments, urceolate, 
shortly 2-lipped ; receptacle included or very long exserted, capillary. — Hook. 
Sp. Fil. i. 123 ; T. Endlicherianum, Presl ; T. aureum , Yan den Bosch. 
Abundant throughout the Northern and Middle Islands, on trunks of trees, etc., 
Banks and Colander, etc. Also found in the Pacific and West Indian and Philippine 
Islands. 
5. T. Colensoi, Hook. f. in 1c. Plant, t. 979 ; — Fl.N.Z. ii. 17. Rhi- 
zome capillary, creeping, hairy. Fronds pendulous, quite glabrous, linear- 
oblong, 1-3 in. long, 1- or 2-pinnate, dark green, very membranous ; stipes 
and rachis filiform, glabrous ; pinnae 5-10 pairs, distant, shortly stipitate, pin- 
nate below, pinnatifid above ; segments linear, quite entire, ^ in. broad, 
acute ; margin not thickened ; midrib stout, not branched. Involucres soli- 
tary at the base of the segments, free, erect, pedicelled, cylindric ; mouth 
scarcely dilated; receptacle generally capillary, exserted. 
Northern Island: dense forests, Waikare lake, Colenso. Middle Island : Nelson, 
Travers ; Lake Wauaka, llaast. 
6. T. venosum, Br.j—Fl. N. Z. ii. 17. Rhizome capillary, creeping, 
glabrous. Fronds pendulous, quite glabrous, very membranous, shining, 
transparent, linear, 2-5' in. long, pinnate. Stipes capillary, winged above ; 
pinnae remote, broadly linear-oblong, cuneate at the base ; segments i in. 
broad, obtuse or notched ; margin waved, not thickened ; midrib flexuose, 
giving off veins alternately. Involucres at the upper edge of the base of the 
pinnules, sunk in the frond or free, tubular or urceolate ; mouth dilated, 
shortly 2-lipped ; receptacle often capillary and exserted. 
Abuudant throughout the Northern and Middle Islands: clothing trunks of tree- 
ferns, etc., Banks and Solander , etc. Also common in Tasmania and South-east Australia. 
7. T. Malingii, Hook. Garden Ferns , t. 64. Rhizome slender, filiform 
Frond 4-8 in. high, erect, rigid, narrow linear-oblong, 2-4-pinnate, red-brown 
beneath, everywhere covered with pale-brown stellate pubescence ; stipes not 
winged ; divisions all very narrow-linear, coriaceous, almost terete, obtuse, 
in. diam., quite entire. Involucres subglobose, terminating the segments, 
than which they are a little broader, rather turgid, concealed by the stellate 
pubescence ; lips irregularly waved or crenate ; receptacle included. 
Northern Island: Mount Egmout {Mrs. Jones), Middle Island: mountains be- 
tween Blind Bay and Massacre or Golden Bay, Mating , Brunner ; Otago, Mount Cargill, 
near Dunedin, alt. 2000 ft.. Hector and Buchanan. A very singular fern ; I follow Sir 
W. Hooker in placing it in Trichomanes , though to me it appears most nearly related to 
Hymenophyllum eeruginosum. For the fact of the Mount Egmont habitat I am indebted 
to a letter from Mrs. Jones, who however does not state the tinder’s name. 
The supposed Trichomanes , from Manakau Bay, alluded to at vol. ii. p. 18 of the ‘New 
Zealand Flora,’ proves to be seedling fronds of Bolypodium tenellum. 
7. LOXSOMA, Br. 
Rhizome stout, woody. — Fronds erect, coriaceous, pinnate, opaque. Sori 
marginal, euclosed in an urceolate coriaceous involucre, with a truncate mouth. 
Capsules shortly pedicelled, club-shaped, crowded on a long columnar ex- 
serted receptacle, mixed with jointed hairs, obliquely girt by an incomplete 
striate ring, bursting longitudinally. 
