p. 147.), and to it the Cheilaiitlies ambigua, A. Rich. (Flor. Nov. Zel. p. 84.), seems very nearly related. M. Richard accurately describes his plant, of which I have gathered specimens near the Bay of Islands, and shoidd be inclined to place them near to the P. ru/josulu/i/, Lab.; though in habit and most of the characters it approaches a true species of Cheilanthes or Eypolepis, from the interior of New Zealand, which is hitherto undescribed. Mr. Colenso's P. viscidum, a mountain plant, is, I believe, identical with this from Lord Auckland's group.
2. Polypodium Grammitidis; Brown, Prodr. p. 107 et auctorum. Grammitis heterophylla, Lai. Flor. Nov. Holl. v. 2. p. 90. t, 239.
Hab. Lord Auckland's group ; on the trunks of trees, rare.
This plant appears intermediate between the genera Polypodium and Grammitis ; I have followed Mr. Brown in retaining it in the former of these. The Auckland Island specimens do not differ from those of New Zealand and Tasmania.
7. PHYMATODES, Presl,
1. Phymatodes Billardieri, Presl, Pterid. rj. 196. Polypodium Billardieri, Brown, Prodr. p. 147, et auctorum. P. scandens, Lab. Nov. Holl. vol. ii. p. 91. t. 240. P. phymatodes, A. Bid/. Fl. Nov. Zel. p. 66.
Hab. Lord Auckland's group and Campbell's Island ; common on trunks of trees and rocks in the woods near the sea.
The Auckland group specimens are equally variable with those of New Zealand and Tasmania.
8. GRAMMITIS, Sw.
1. Grammitis australis, Brown, Prodr. p. 146. A. Cunn. Flor. Nor. Zel. I.e. p. 362. Hombr. et fact], in Voy. an Pole Sud, Bot. Monocot. Crypt, t. 2. G. G. Billardieri, Wittd. Sp. PI. vol. v. p. 139. Presl, Pterid. p. 209. G. rigida et G. humilis, Hombr. and Jacq. 1. c., t. 2. fig. P. and H.
Hab. Lord Auckland's group and Campbell's Island ; very common in all situations, from the level of the sea to the tops of the mountains.
A copious suite of specimens, collected at different levels, from the sea to an altitude of 1400ft., prove all the three species figured by MM. Hombron and Jacquinot to belong to states of one plant. The same varieties are found on ascending Mount Wellington in Tasmania, where also they pass insensibly into one another. I have retained Mr. Brown's name for this species, the name G. Billardieri having been already applied to another of the genus, and I am not aware whether the ' Prodromus Flora? Novae Hollandiae ' or "VYilldenow's ' Species Plantariun ' appeared first in the year 1810.
9. SCHIZ.EA, But.
1. ScmzjiA australis, Gaud. Flor. Ins. 31,//. in Ami. Sc. Nat. Maie. 1825, p. 98 et in Freyc. Toy. Bot. p. 296. S. palmata, Hombr. et Jacq. in Voy. nu Pole Sud, Bot. Monocot. Crypt, t. 4. Z. sine descript.
Hab. Lord Auckland's group ; upland places, very common on the hard soil, which is often bare of any vegetation but Lichens.
These specimens entirely accord with the description of M. Gaudichaud's S. australis, quoted above: the figure of Mil. Hombron and Jacqidnot not affording any character to distinguish their .S'. palmata specifically from this, and no letter-press having accompanied their plates, I feel obliged to set aside the name they have adopted.
