Classification and Description 
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the discoverer from the forests on the mountains near Waikare 
Lake, the fronds of which (including stipe) measured only 
6—9 inches in length ; it was, moreover, more acuminate, 
and serratures of lobes more spinous. 
This Fern has very much the appearance of an Aspidiwn, 
to which genus it was supposed it must belong. From a 
close investigation, however, of several fronds in different 
stages of fructification without meeting with any vestige of an 
indunum, it has been referred to Poly podium. It possesses 
several characters in common with Aspidium Waikarense , 
(n. sp., vide n. 7, seq.) with which plant it is very likely at 
first sight to be confounded. 
2. P. visciDUM, n. sp. Plant , sub-erect, drooping, 
somewhat lax, thickly tomentose, viscid and villous, terres- 
tial. Frond, oblong-lanceolate, sub-acuminate, bipinnate, 
B—24 inches; reddish-green. Pinnules; primaries, oblong- 
lanceolate, acuminate, sub-acute, broadest at base, petiolatc, 
alternate, very remote: lowermost sub-opposite : secondaries , 
linear-oblong, sub-acute, alternate and sub-opposite, distant, 
somewhat reflexed ; uppermost pinnatifid ; lowermost petio- 
late : segments, obloug, broadest at base, crenatc, sessile, 
sub-opposite, sub-revolute; veins, transparent. Sori, ro¬ 
tund, sub-marginal, regular, bifariously disposed on each 
segment of frond ; generally a sorus at every sinus. Stij)e, 
4—8 inches, channelled on upper surface, brittle, reddish 
brown. Caudcx, creeping, thickly tomentose. 
Ilab. Dry sandy places, on mountains near Waikare Lake ; 
Dec., 1841. Also, neighbourhood of Bay of Islands, in ele¬ 
vated and dry spots, margins of woods; 1838. 
Obs. I have, with some hesitation, referred this Fern to 
Polypodium; from its not having, however, any indusium, 
&c., I have been led to assign it to that genus. Both this 
and the preceding species differ widely in habit from the 
species of Poly podium hitherto discovered in New Zealand. 
The whole plant is very glutinous, from which cause it is ge- 
