Blade slender; 1-2" long, g-3" wide, 
If.-1i" long. 0. pedunculosum, 
Ophioglossum.] ' FILICES. 93 
1. 0. coriaceum 4. Cunn. Precur. (1836) n. 161.—Rhizome eylindric, 
suberect, slightly tuberous, roots fieshy. Fronds 1—2 (or rarely 3) from the 
rhizome, 1-3 in. long including the petiole and fertile spike ; sterile lamina 
usually placed below the middle, }-2 in. long, §-41n. broad, lanceolate to 
ovate-lanceolate, acute or obtuse or shortly apiculate, narrowed into a long 
cuneate base, fleshy or almost coriacegus ; veins indistinct, reticulated in 
narrow areoles. Fertile spike 1—?in. long, on a slender peduncle which 
usually much exceeds the sterile lamina when mature. Sporangia 7-15 in 
each row.—Presl Suppl. (1845) 49; Prantl Beit. Syst. Ophiog. (1884) 314, 
t. 7, 1.9, 10, 11. O. gramineum R. Br. Prodr, (1810) 163 (but not of Walld.). 
O. lusitanicum Hook. and Bak. Syn. Fil. (1874) 445; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns 
(1882) 98; Field N.Z. Ferns (1890) 155, t. 21, £. 7 (but not of Linn.). 
O. vulgatum vars. gramineum, lusitanicum, and minimum Hook, f. Fl. Nov. 
Zel,i (1855) u, 50; Handb. N.Z. Fl, (1864) 386. O. minimum Col. ex Hook. 
and Bak. (1874) 445. O. minimum Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xii 
(1881) 342. 
KERMADEC IsLANDS, NORTH AND SoutH IsLanps: Not uncommon in grassy places © 
throughout, ascending to 3500 ft. 
This, so far as New Zealand is concerned, consists of the varieties gramimeum, 
lusitanicum, and minimum of the Flora and the Handbook. The two first are now 
considered to form a distinct species under Cunningham’s name of O. coriaceum, of which 
Armstrong’s O. minimum is probably a depauperated state. O. coriaceum is also known 
from. Australia, Tasmania, Easter Island (Skottsberg), and Bolivia. 
)» 2 mnadunanlacum TM... 2. Da.) AA. -- 410111 904 DES i short 
3 
ly more. 
il length 
lamina 
d, ovate 
icate or 
P : | reticu- 
Ophiogilossum Linn, Bete 
variable 
mgatum 
Rhizome slender, slightly tuberous, #1. Nov. 
0k. and 
Z. Ferns 
Spike 1A, fh ° long, no more, O. Foveaux 
—_ a-level to 
coriaceun, his plant 
bt up that 
Most of 
’ kept up 
Rhizome stouter, Blade often wide pen 
v, Ceylon, 
1-25" long, 4-13" wide. Spike 
ig roots. 
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r sterile, 
