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I. FIL1CES. 
*\_Lomaria. 
oblong-lanceolate, subfalcate, obtuse acute or acuminate, quite entire or waved 
or crenate, lower orbicular and sometimes distant ; fertile fronds shorter, with 
distant linear, acute or acuminate pinnules. — Hook. Ic. PL t. 429 ; Sp. Fil. 
iii. 11. 
Abundaut throughout the Northern and Middle Islands, Banks and Solander, etc. 
Lord Auckland’s group and Campbell’s Island, J. L. H. Also very common in 
Tasmania, South-east Australia, some of the Pacific Islands; also in South America if, as 
I believe, L. blechnoides, Bory, is the same plant. 
9. L. discolor, Willdenow ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 30. Yery similar to L. 
lanceolata, but usually larger, often 3 ft. high ; rhizome the same ; fronds 
forming an elegant crown, red-brown below, coriaceous, the pinnules nar- 
rower ; those of the fertile fronds are often leafy at the base. — Hook. Sp. 
Fil. iii. 5; L. lanceolata , FI. Antarct. i. 110, not Sprengel; Onoclea nuda, 
Labill. FI. Nov. Holl. t. 246 ; Osmunda discolor, Forst. 
Abundant throughout the Northern and Middle Islands, Lord Auckland’s group 
and Campbell’s Island, J. J). H. Very common in South-east Australia and Tasmania. 
10. L. attenuata, Willdenow. Rhizome long, creeping, stout, densely 
clothed with chalfy, fulvous, shining scales. Fronds alternate, 1-2 ft. long, 
coriaceous ; barren pinnatifid, pinnate at the very base, broadly lanceolate, 
very attenuate below; stipes short, scaly; pinnules horizontal, close together, 
with a narrow acute sinus, becoming gradually smaller downwards, acuminate 
or truncate and emarginate, entire or subserrate ; fertile fronds with more re- 
mote, linear, sessile, apiculate or acuminate pinnules.— Hook. Sp. Fil. iii. 6. 
Kermadec Islands, Macgillivray . Also found in Norfolk Island and in tropical coun- 
tries of the Old and New 'World. 
10. L. alpina, Sprengel; — FI. N. Z. ii. 30. Rhizome creeping, chaffy, 
slender. Fronds tufted, coriaceous, quite glabrous, dark green, 2 in.-2 ft. 
high, linear, | in. broad, pinnatifid or pinnate at the very base only, 
narrowed above and below ; stipes and rachis stout, smooth, sometimes scaly 
here and there ; pinnules of barren fronds very numerous, close, linear-oblong, 
obtuse, sessile by a broad base ; fertile fronds longer than the barren, pinnate ; 
pinnules remote, spreading or deflexed and curving upwards, linear, obtuse, 
lower remote, rounded, often without sori. Involucre scarious. — Hook. Sp. 
Fil. iii. 16 ; FI. Antarct. t. 150; L. linearis, Colenso. 
Common in subalpine districts throughout the Northern and Middle Islands. Not 
found hitherto in Lord Auckland’s group and Campbell’s Island, though common in the 
mountains of Tasmania, Chili, Fuegia, and the other antarctic islands. 
12. La. Banksii, Hook. f. FI. N. Z. ii. 31. t. 76. /. 1. Rhizome pro- 
strate, stout, woody, covered with matted fibres, chaffy at the ascending tip. 
Fronds tufted, numerous, quite glabrous, coriaceous, 6-18 in. high, very 
narrow-lanceolate, pinnatifid, the fertile shorter, pinnate ; stipes winged, 
scaly at the base and rachis, very stout, naked ; pinnules numerous, close set, 
half orbicular or very broadly oblong, rounded at the tip, quite entire, sessile 
by a very broad base ; the lower decurrent and often forming a wing to the 
stipes ; fertile pinnules shorter and narrower, spreading, curved or straight. 
- — Hook. Sp. Fil. iii. 17. 
Common in dark woods, throughout the Northern and Middle Islands, Banks and 
