Davallia.] 
I. FILICES. 
359 
Northern Island: Bay of Islands, Cunningham ; east coast and interior, Colenso ; 
Wellington, Stephenson, Jolliffe ; Port Nicholson, Lyall. Middle Island: Otago, com- 
mon, Hector and Buchanan. 
B. Lindleyi, Hook., alluded to at vol. ii. p. 18, of the ‘ New Zealand Flora,’ proves to 
be a Fiji Island plant, erroneously supposed to have been sent from New Zealand. 
10. LINDSJIA, Dryander. 
Rhizome tufted or creeping. — Frond usually compound, coriaceous. Veins 
free or anastomosing. Son linear, parallel with and close to the margin, con- 
tinuous or interrupted. Involucre of two valves, opening outwards, the upper 
being the margin of the frond, the lower membranous and rising from the 
tips of the veins. 
A large tropical and subtropical genus. 
Frond linear, pinnate 1. L. linearis. 
Frond lanceolate, 1-3-pinnate 2. L. trichcmanoides . 
1. L. linearis, Swartz; — FI. N. Z. ii. 19. Rhizome stout, creeping, 
scaly. Fronds distant, erect, 2-18 in. high, linear, pinnate, coriaceous, 
bright green ; stipes and rachis stout, glabrous, purplish ; pinnae distant, £ 
in. broad, cuneate or fan-shaped ; margins entire or crenate, revolute when 
dry. Sori nearly continuous. — Hook. Sp. Fil. i. 206. 
Common in rocky and stony places throughout the Northern and Middle Islands. 
Also abun: aut in temperate Australia and Tasmania. 
2. Ij. trichomanoides, Dryander — FI. N. Z. ii. 19. Rhizome creep- 
ing, chaffy. Fronds tufted, erect, 2-4 in. high, ovate or linear-oblong, 
pinnate or 2- or 3-pinnate ; stipes and rachis stiff, 3-gonous, polislied, the 
former scaly at the base ; pinnae distant, rarely simple, oblong-lanceolate, 
usually pinnatifid or again pinnate ; segments or ultimate pinnae in. 
long, cuneate, rounded in fruit, with a deep continuous intramarginal sorus. 
Var. a. Frond 2- or 3-pinnate. — L. trichomanoides , Dryander, — Hook. Sp. Fil. i. 218 ; 
L. viridis, Col. ; Adiantum cuneatum, Forst. 
Var. /8. Lessoni. Frond pinnate or 2-pinuate below ; pinnae oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, en- 
tire lobed or pinnatifid. — L. Lessoni, Bory, in Duperrey, Voy. 287. t. 37. f. 2. 
Abundant throughout the Northern and Middle Islands : in woods. Also found in 
Tasmania. 
11. ADIANTUM, Linn. 
Rhizome creeping. — Fronds usually tufted and very compound, with the 
pinnae on slender stalks, membranous or coriaceous. Veins simple forked or 
netted. Sori marginal, rounded or oblong and parallel to the margin. Invo- 
lucre of the reflexed, often kidney-shaped, white or dark margins of the 
frond, opening inwards, its surface veined, the veins continuous with those of 
the pinnae. 
A very large tropical and temperate genus of ferns, known as “ Maidenhair.” 
Sori situated in the deep notches or crenatures of the pinnules. 
Frond pedate. Rachis hispid. Pinnules coriaceous, striate, hispid . 1 . A. hispidulum. 
Rachis glabrous, polished. Pinnules membranous, sparingly setulose 
above 2. A. affine. 
Rachis slender, glabrous, polished. Pinnules membranous, glabrous, 
orbicular 3. A. tzihiopicum. 
