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978 gradually reduced in size to minute auricles, margins crenulate; veins fine, close, forked. Fertile fronds rather shorter than the sterile, pinnate; pinnæ remote, very narrow-linear, 2–3 in. long, apiculate.—''Bak. in Ann. Bot.'' v. (1891) 219. L. acuminata, ''Bak. Syn. Fil. (edit. 2) 481; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns,'' 66. L. attenuata, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 368; Field, N.Z. Ferns, 101 (not of Willd.'').

5. L. lanceolata, ''Spreng. Syst. Veg.'' iv. 62.—Rhizome short, stout, erect or inclined, rarely produced into a short caudex 3–6 in. high. Stipes 2–6 in. long, firm, erect, dark-brown at the base and clothed with subulate scales, paler and glabrous above. Fronds tufted, forming a crown at the top of the rhizome; the sterile ones 6–18 in. long, 2–4 in. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, gradually narrowed to the base, rather membranous, pale-green or dark-green, quite glabrous, pinnate below, pinnatifid above. Pinnæ numerous, close-set, horizontally spreading or ascending, 1–2 in. long, ¼–½ in. broad, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, attached by a broad somewhat dilated base, gradually tapering to an obtuse or acute point, slightly falcate, usually sinuate-crenate towards the tip, rarely entire; veins conspicuous, free, forked. Fertile fronds usually shorter than the sterile, 1–2 in. broad, pinnate; pinnæ ¾–1½ in. long, distant, narrow-linear, acute or apiculate.—''A. Cunn. Precur. n. 180; Raoul, Choix, 37; Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 429; Sp. Fil.'' iii. 11; ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.'' li. 29; ''Handb. N.Z. Fl. 367; Hook. and Bak. Syn. Fil. 177; Benth. Fl. Austral.'' vii. 735; ''Thoms. N.Z. Ferns, 66; Field, N.Z. Ferns,'' 102, t. 11, f. 2, 2a. L. aggregata, ''Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xx. (1888) 223; Field, N.Z. Ferns, 103, t. 29, f. 7, 7a. Blechnum lanceolatum, Sturm.

6. L. dura, ''Moore in Gard. Chron.'' (1866) 290.—Rhizome stout, erect, clothed with the bases of the old stipites, sometimes lengthened into a short caudex. Stipes 1–2 in. long, clothed at the base with large ovate-lanceolate brownish scales. Fronds