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I. FILICES. 
[ Lomaria . 
y. Fronds 2-pinnate or 2-pinnatifid. 
Rhizome erect, slender. Frond ovate-lanceolate 14. L. Fraseri. 
1. L. filiformis, A. Cunn. — Stenochlmia heterornorplia , J. Smith ; — FI. 
N. Z. ii. 46. Ehizome climbing lofty trees, stout, woody, covered with chaffy 
scales. Fronds alternate, pendulous, 6-24 in. long, linear, pinnate ; stipes 
rigid, often chaffy ; pinnules numerous, stipitate, jointed on to the rachis ; bar- 
ren glabrous, coriaceous, 2-3 in. long, linear-lanceolate, falcate, finely crenu- 
late or serrulate, rounded at the base, tapering to a long point, in young plants 
small, membranous, orbicular or oblong, crenate or lobed ; costa stout ; veins 
forked, free, parallel ; fertile pinnules filiform ; involucres very inconspicuous. 
— Hook. Sp. Fil. iii. 333. t. 149; L. propinqua, A. Cunn.; L. pimpinellce- 
folia, Hook. f. in Lond. Journ. Bot. iii. 412. 
Abundant throughout the Northern and Middle Islands, Banks and Solander, etc. 
A similar and perhaps identical species is found in the Fiji Islands ; a very remarkable plant, 
differing in several points from the other Lomaria. 
2. L. procera, Sprengel ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 27. Ehizome short, stout, 
often woody. Fronds tall, rigid, very coriaceous, pinnate, 1-4 ft. high, ex- 
tremely variable in stature and form ; stipes stout, short or long, chaffy and 
scaly at the base ; rachis naked, or with a few scales ; barren pinnules 3-20 
pairs, linear-oblong, lanceolate or ensiform, stipitate, or the upper adnate to 
the rachis, acute acuminate or caudate, narrowed truncate or auricled at the 
base, 2-12 in. long, minutely toothed ; costa naked or chaffy ; veins numerous; 
lowest pinnule sometimes orbicular or cordate, uppermost sometimes elongate 
and erect ; fertile pinnules narrower, on separate fronds, or on the bases of the 
barren. — Hook. Sp. Fil. ii. 22; Ic. Plant, t. 407, 408 ; L. latifolia, Colenso; 
Stegania procera , Br. ; Blechnum procerum , Labill. FI. Nov. Holl. t. 247 ; 
Parablechnum procerum, Presl ; Osmunda procera, Forst. 
Var. a. Tall, robust, coriaceous ; barren pinnules obliquely truncate or cuneate at the base. 
Var. /8. Tall, robust, coriaceous ; barren pinnules auricled at the base, often 1 ft. long. 
Var. y. Tall, robust; barren pinnules narrowed at the base. 
Var. S. FI. N. Z. ii. t. 75. Smaller, less coriaceous; pinnules few, barren truncate or 
auricled at the base, upper adnate. — Hook. Garden Ferns, t. 53 ; Stegania minor , Br. 
Abundant throughout the islands, from the Kermadec Islands to Campbell’s Island: 
in all situations, generally in humid, often marshy. Found throughout the southern hemi- 
sphere, and as far north as Mexico. One of the most variable of ferns ; the varieties enu- 
merated keep their characters under cultivation. 
3. L. fluviatilis, Sprengel; — FI. N. Z. ii. 28. Ehizome stout, often 
woody, chaffy. Fronds tufted, slender, narrow-linear, 8-1 8 in. high, 1-2 
broad, pinnate ; stipes chaffy at the base and often the rachis with long scales ; 
pinnules numerous, barren ones rounded or linear-oblong, obtuse, waved or 
crenate at the tip, li in. long, lower shortly stalked, upper adnate, upper- 
most confluent; fertile pinnules narrow-linear, erect, obtuse, | in. long. — - 
Hook. Sp. Fil. iii. 34 ; L. rotundifolia, Eaoul, Choix, t. 2 B, and Colenso, in 
Tasm. Phil. Journ. ; Stegania fluviatilis, Br. 
Abuudant in hilly parts of the Northern, and throughout the Middle Island. Also 
found in Tasmania and South-eastern Australia. 
4. L. membranacea, Colenso. Ehizome very short, stout, with wiry 
roots, scaly' at the top. Fronds tufted, erect, membranous, green, 6-10 in. 
