5O FILICES. [Asplenium. 
cuneate-oblong, irregularly toothed or lobed or even pinnatifid, rarely again 
pinnate. Veins subflabellate, forked. Sori 2-5 on a pinnule, short, oblong, 
remote from the margin.—Hook. Sp. Fil. iii (1860) 194; Moore Ind. Fil. 
(1858) 136; Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fi. (1864) 372; Hook. and Bak. Syn. 
Fol. (1873) 214; Benth. Fl. Austral vii (1878) 747; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns 
(1882) 75; Field N.Z. Ferns (1890) 120, t. 16, f. 44; Cheesem. ill. N.Z. 
Fi. u (1914) t. 243. A. adiantoides Raoul Choir (1846) 10, t. 1 (not of 
Raddi). A. adiantoides var. Hookerianum Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. ii (1855) 
35. A. Raouli Mett. Aspl. (1859) 118. A. ornatum Col. in Trans. N.Z. 
Inst. xxii (1890) 452. 
Var. Colensoi Moore Ind. Fil. (1858) 137.—Fronds pale-green, usually flaccid. 
Pinnules on shorter stalks, deeply and finely pinnatifid ; segments linear, each with a 
single vein. Sori oblong, solitary on the margin of the segments.—Hovk. f. Handb. 
N.Z. Fl. (1864) 872; Thems. N.Z. Ferns (1882) 75; Field N.Z. Ferns (1890) 120, 
t. 27, f. 1. A. Colensoi Hook. {. in Lond. Journ. Bot. iii (1844) 26: Hook. and Bak. Syn. 
Fil. (1873) 219. A. adiantoides var. Colensoi Hook. f. Ie. Plant. t. 984; Fl. Nov. Zel. 
ii (1855) 85. A. Richardi var. Colensoi Hook. Sp. Fil. iii (1860) 197. 
Norru anp Sours Isnanps: From Mangonui and Kaitaia to the south of Otago, 
hut often local. Sea-level to 2509 ft. 
A yariable little plant, said to he found also in New South Wales and Victoria, 
bat I have seen no specimens from thence. Var. Colensot was placed with A. Richardi 
by Sir W. J. Hooker, and is retained as a distinct species by Mr. Baker in the “ Synopsis 
Filicum.” But, as stated by Mr. Field (N.Z. Ferns, 129), it often grows intermixed 
with the type, and occasionally the fronds of both forms can be found on the same plant. 
Mr. Colenso’s A. ornatum is simply a state with the pinnules rather narrower than usual. 
and on longer stalks. : Ue ’ 
10. A. bulbiferum Porst. f. Prodr. (1786) n. 433.—Rhizome short, stout, 
erect or oblique, crowned with linear-subulate scales. Stipes 4-12 in. 
Jong or more, compressed or semiterete, usually dark-brown and densely 
scaly at the base, above green or greyish-green and either naked or decidu- 
ously scaly. Fronds 1-4 ft. long, 6-12 in. broad, ovate-lanceolate or oblong- 
lanceolate, acuminate, bright-egreen, scarcely membranous but flaccid, 
2-3-pinnate or in small specimens pinnate ; rhachis compressed, often scaly 
when young. Primary pinnae numerous, horizontal, 3-6 in. long, 1-12 in. 
broad, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, often proliferous on the 
upper surface, cut down to a narrowly winged rhachis into numerous 
secondary divisions or pinnules. Pinnules 3-14 in. long, lanceolate to 
ovate-oblong, deeply pinnatifid ; ultimate segments linear-oblong, entire 
or toothed. Sori short, oblique, oblong, on the disc of the shortly lobed 
pinnules, but often marginal on the segments of the more deeply divided 
ones.—A. Rrch. Fl. Nouv. Zel. (1832) 75; A. Ounn. Precur. (1836) n. 193; 
Raoul Choix (1846) 38; Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 423; Sp. Fil. in (1860) 
196; Homb. et Jacq. Voy. au Pole Sud (1852) Crypt. t. 8, £. i; Hook. f. 
Fil. Nov. Zel. ii (1855) 34; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 373; Hook. and Bak. 
Syn. Fil. (1873) 218 ; Benth. Fl. Austral. vii (1878) 748; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns 
(1882) 75; Meld N.Z. Ferns (1890) 121, t. 6, f. 5; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. 
Fl, (1906) 998. 
Var. Jaxum_ ook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. ii (1855) 34.-—Fronds smaller and more slender, 
with narrower and more remote pinnae. Pinnules more deeply divided; segments 
narrow-linear. Sori often marginal._—Handb. N.Z. Fl. ( 1864) 373; Hook. Sp, Fil. iii 
(1860) 196; Hook. and Bak. Syn. Fil, (1873) 218. A. laxum R. Br. Prodr. (1810) 151; 
Homb et Jacq. Voy. au Pole Sud (1852) Crypt. t. 8, £. 3. A. gracillimum Col. in Trans. 
N.Z. Inst. xxii (1890) 453. (?) A. triste Raoul Choix (1846) 10. . 
