a =—~ a 
42 : FILICES, [ Lindsay. 
2. L. euneata,C. Christen. Ind. Fil. (1905) 25.—Rhizome creeping, 
slender. clothed with reddish brown scales. Stipes 3-8in. long, rather 
rigid, slender, wiry, angled, ph glabrous or slightly scaly towards 
the base. Fronds 3-8 in. long, 14-4 in. broad, oblong-lanceolate or linear- 
oblong, more rarely ovate- oblong, subcoriaceous, dark-green, bipinnate. 
Primary pinnae nearly opposite, 1-31in. long, lanceolate, erecto-patent, 
pinnatifid above, pinnate below. Pinnules or segments obovate or rounded- 
cuneate, entire or more or less toothed or lobed, rarely again pinnatifid. 
Veins obscure, flabellately branched. Sori forming a continuous intra- 
marginal line round the apex of the lobes.—Dryand. mt dite Linn. Soc. isi 
(1797) 43, t. 11; A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. (1832) 8 A. Cunn. Precur. 
(1836) mn. 214; ‘Raoul Choix (1846) 388 ; Hook. Sp. Fil. 1 (1846) 218; 
Hovk. f. Fl. Nov, Zel. ii (1855) 19; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 359; Hook. 
and Bak. Syn. Fil. (1873) 110; Benth. Fl. Austral. vi (1878) 720: 
Thoms. N.Z. Ferns (1882) 52; Feld N.Z. Ferns (1890) 78, t. 19, f. 1; 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. £1. ( 1906) 958. Adiant um cuneatum forst. f. Prodr. 
(1786) u. 461. | 
Var. Lessonii, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. ii (1855) 19.—Fronds simply pinnate or 
2-pinnate at the base alone; pinnae oblong-lanceolate, entire or lobed or pinnatifid.— 
L. Lessonii Bory in Duper. Voy. Cog. i (1828) 278, t. 37, f. 2; A. Rich. Fl. Nour. Zel. 
(1832) 84; A. Cunn. Precur. (1836) n. 212; Raoul Choix (1846) 38; Hook. Sp. Fil. i 
(1846) 217. 
NortH AND SovrH Istanps: From Hokianga southwards to Foveaux Strait, 
common in the North Island, local on the eastern side of the South Island. Sea-level 
to 2500 ft. 
Also in Australia, Tasmania, and the Fiji Islands. 
3. L. viridis Col. in Tasin. Journ. Nat. Sci. 1 (1846) 174.—Rhizome 
very short, suberect. Stipites densely tufted at the top of the rhizome, 
1-4in. long, slender, wiry, dark chestnut-brown, angled, smooth and 
polished, glabrous except a tuft of pale-brown scales at the base. 
Fronds 6—-14in. long, 1-l}in. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, pale-green, 
subcoriaceous, 2—3-pimnatifid ;. rhachis slender, flexuose, shining, naked. 
Primary pinnae alternate, ascending, the lower ones much reduced in 
size, rhomboid-lanceolate ; secondary obversely deltoid, simple or deeply 
lobed or again flabellately pinnate. Ultimate segments about in. long, 
cuneate or linear-cuneate, truncate. Veins simple or forked. Sori very 
numerous, at the tips of the segments. Indusium membranous, trans- 
versely oblong, from rather broader cS long to twice as broad as long: 
outer valve (tip of the segment) 1 Buk. in Journ. Bot. 
(1875) 109; 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Fhe: x (isi) 396 ; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns 
(1882) 51 ; ’ Field N.4. Ferns (1890) 79, t. 2], f. 2; Chasers Ill. N.Z. Flu 
(1914) t. 238. L. trichomanoides (7n part) Hook. Sp. Fil. 1 (1846) 218; 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. ii (1855) 19; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 359 (not of 
Dryand.). LL. microphylla Hook. und Bak. Syn. Fil. (1873) 110 (the 
New Zealand plant, not of R. Br.). 
NortH Isnanp: Auckland—Great Barrier Island, 7. Kirk, Winkelmann! Little 
Barrier Island, Miss Shakespear! Thames, Adams! WHenderson’s Creek, 7. F. C. ; 
Huia Creek, 7. Airk ; near Mauku, H. Carse ; between Tauranga and Rotorua, Colenso / 
East Cape district, Bishop Williams. Taranaki—Mount Egmont Ranges, J. WM. Brame. 
Wellington—Upper Wanganui, and from thence to the base of the Tararna Range, 
