Ferns.

• Hiaue.—Creepinglycopodium.
• Huruhuruwhenua.—Asplenium lucidum.
• Kiokio.—Polypodium.
• Kopakopa.—Trichomanes. A round-leaved fern.
• Korokio.—The smallest tree-fern.
• Kotote.—A small-leaved fern.
• Kurakura.—A small kind of lycopodium.
• Maerere.—A small-leaved fern.page 357
• Makaka.—Adianthum.
• Mangapowhatu.—Polytrichum cyphoma.
• Mangemange.—Lycopodium articulatum. A creeping fern.
• Mokimoki.—Long-leaved, fern.
• Mouku.—An edible fern.
• Ngutu-Karkariki.—Parrot's bill fern, so called from the form of its foot-stalk; the fronds are plume-shaped.
• Panaka.—Asplenium. A very graceful fern.
• Para Marattia.—Salicina. A large fern.
• Paretau.—Asplenium obliquum. A large-leaved fern.
• Puaka rimu.—The tree lycopodium.
• Raorao.—Pteris esculenta. A common edible fern, the root of which formed at one time the principal food of the Maori.
• Raumanga.—Polypodium. A broad-leaved fern.
• Tapui kotuku.—Creeping lycopodium.
• Tarakupenga.—Creeping lycopodium.
• Waewaekoukou.—Lycopodium volubile. A running fern.
• Ti Taranaki—A fern growing on the plains, having its fructification on a separate stalk.