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I. FILTCES. 
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Solander, etc. The very broad coriaceous pinnules, altogether adnate, b;st distinguish this. 
A very similar and, I think, identical species, occurs in Chili. 
13. L. nigra, Colenso ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 31. Rhizome short, indistinct. 
Fronds tufted, small, 8-12 in. high, dark green, blackish and brittle when 
dry, lanceolate, obtuse, quite glabrous, or pubescent below and on the mar- 
gin, rather membranous ; stipes and rachis scaly ; barren fronds often lyrate- 
pinnatifid or -pinnate; pinnules few, often interrupted, oblong, obtuse, sinuate- 
crenate, upper usually largest, lobed, lower sometimes also large stalked and 
deflexed ; fertile fronds pinnate; pinnules few, distant, suberect, narrow-linear, 
tip subulate or apiculate, terminal often elongate. — Hook. Ic. PI. t. 960 ; 
Sp. Fil. iii. 35 ; Polybotrya nana, Fee, Acrost. t. 38. f. 1. 
Northern Island : in dark moist woods, by watercourses, etc. ; east coast and interior, 
Colenso , Sinclair , etc. Middle Island : Milford Haven and Bligh’s Sound, Lyall, Sector 
and Buchanan. 
14. L. Fraseri, A. Cunn. ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 31. Rhizome slender, erect, 
like that of a small tree-fern, sometimes 2-3 ft. high, as thick as the thumb, 
black, covered with the bases of old stipes. Fronds tufted, very numerous at the 
top of the rhizome, 8-18 in. high, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 2-pinnatifid, quite 
glabrous, rather membranous ; stipes scaly at the base, quite glabrous, as is 
the rachis, both are interruptedly winged, the wing sharply angled and lobed ; 
primary branches 2-4 in. long, -| broad, tapering to a long point ; pinnules 
crowded, linear-oblong, acute, quite entire or serrate ; fertile frond narrower 
than the barren, sometimes 2-pinnate, caudate ; segments sometimes stipitate. 
Involucres marginal, recurved. 
Northern Island and northern parts of the Middle Island: Bay of Islands, Fraser , 
etc. ; Auckland, Sinclair ; Massacre Bay, Lyall. Not found except in New Zealand. 
17. DOODIA, Br. 
Fronds tufted on a very short rhizome, simply pinnate, erect or prostrate, 
the inner often the most fertile. Veins free, simple or forked, uniting again 
only where the sorus is placed. Sori oblong or reniform, distant from the 
margin, parallel to the costa. Involucres of the same shape, membranous 
or scarious, attached by one side to a transverse vein, opening towards the 
costa. 
A small genus, confined to the southern Pacific Islands, Australia, Java, and Ceylon. The 
following species, I think, all pass into one another. 
Fronds erect, pinnatifid in upper i-f. Pinnules 3-6 in 1. I). connexa. 
Fronds erect, pinnatifid in upper 1 or J. Pinnules 1-2 in 2. L). media. 
Frond usually decurved or prostrate, pinnate nearly to the top. Pinnules 
in 3. B. caudata. 
1. D. connexa, Kunze. Fronds tufted, 1-2 ft. high, erect, lanceolate, 
rather membranous, pinnate below, pinnatifid above the middle or lower one- 
third ; stipes stout, black ; rachis smooth, naked ; pinnules close-set, horizontal, 
3-6 in. long, very narrow linear-lanceolate, attenuate at the tip, sharply ser- 
rate, bright green, lowest truncate or auricled at the base. Sori in 1-3 
series on each side the costa.-— Hook. Sp. Fil. iii. 75. 
Kerruadec Islands, Macgillivray. Also found in the Society and other Pacific groups. 
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