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I. FILICES. 
[Poly podium. 
scales, and woolly roots. Frond glabrous, tufted, 2-12 in. long, f- in. broad, 
lanceolate, acuminate, quite entire, tapering into a short margined stipes, 
which is not jointed on to the rhizome ; costa distinct ; veins sunk in the 
substance of the frond, anastomosing, free veinlets 0. Sori large, sunk in 
pits of the frond, globose or oval, in 1 series on each side of and near the 
costa. Capsules mixed with jointed hairs, on long pedicels. — Hook. Sp. Fil. 
v. 58; P. attenuatum, A. Rich., not Brown; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 409. 
Northern and Middle Islands : on trunks of trees and rocks, as far south as Akaroa, 
Banks and Solander, etc. Also found in the New Hebrides, hut not in Australia, where 
the P. attenuatum , with which this was long confounded, takes its place. 
9. P. pustulatum. Foist.; — Phymatodes pustulata, Presl ; PI. N. Z. ii. 
42. Rhizome long, branched, slender, creeping, squarrose with subulate 
scales. Fronds distant, stipitate, numerous, pendulous, rather membranous, 
flaccid, 6-18 in. long, 1-6 in. wide, tapering into a slender glabrous stipes, 
lanceolate or oblong, acuminate, entire or pinnatifid to the rachis ; segments 
distant, 2-3 in. long, -|-1 wide, tapering from a broad base to an obtusely 
acuminate point ; venation lax, anastomosing, with free included veinlets. 
Sori oval or globose, prominent, scarcely sunk in the frond, forming a series 
parallel with the margin and near it. — Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 80 ; Sckkuhr, Fil. 
t. 10 ; P. membranifulium, Br. ; P. scandens , Forst. 
Abundant throughout the Northern and Middle Islands, Banks and Solander, etc. 
Climbing lofty trees. Plant very fragrant ; also found in Norfolk Island and Australia. 
10. P. Billardieri, Br. ; — Phymatodes Billardieri, Presl; — FI. N. Z. 
ii. 42. Rhizome stout, creeping, usually glaucous, more or less covered with 
appressed scales. Fronds numerous, polymorphous, erect or pendulous, 
distant, coriaceous, perfectly smooth and glabrous ; narrowed into a stout 
smooth stipes, which is jointed on to the rhizome, 3—18 in. long, lanceolate 
or oblong, obtuse or acute, entire and acuminate or broader and pinnatifid ; 
margin thickened ; pinnules broad or narrow-oblong, remote or distant, 
obtuse or acute ; costa stout, prominent ; veins anastomosing, with a few 
free veinlets in the areoles. Sori partially sunk in the frond, numerous, 
large, globose or oblong, in one series on each side of the costa. — Hook. Sp. 
Fil. v. 82 ; P. scandens, Labill. FI. Nov. Holl. t. 240, not Forst. ; Niphobolus 
glaber, Kaulf. of A. Rich. Flora (?). 
Abundant throughout the Northern and Middle Islands, Banks and Solander, etc. 
Kermadec Islands, Macgillivray . Lord Auckland’s group and Campbell’s Island, 
J. B. II. Also abundant in Australia, Tasmania, and the Pacific Islands. 
23. GYMNO GRAMME, Desvaux. 
Ferns of various habit; the New Zealand species are small and tufted. — 
Fronds pinnate or 2- or 3-pinnate. Veins free or anastomosing. Sori ob- 
long or linear, usually spreading in branching lines over the under surface of 
the pinnae, either on the veins or between them. Involucre 0. 
A large genus of temperate and tropical ferns, chiefly distinguished from Polypodium 
by the more linear sori, which often branch. 
Glabrous, annual, very membranous, 2- or 3-pinnatifid 1. G. leptopliylla. 
Villous and glandular, perennial, pinnate 2. G. rutafolia. 
