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OPHIOGLOSSAOEiE. 



OniiOGLOSSUM PEDUNCULOSUM Desv. Mt. Mou; shady grassy places (old 

 cultivation terraces) ; cretaceous • 800 ft. Mt. Canala ; Niaouli association ; 

 schists ; 1500 ft. Itrnjimbi ; open moist turf; gneiss ; 2000 ft. 594, 1132, 

 1G14. Japan, Australia, New Zealand, tropical Asia. 



The Ignambi plants, 1014, are much smaller than typical 0. pedunculosum, 

 but they come from the same locality as Schlechter's 15540, which matches 

 my 594 and 1132; and it seems probable that they are merely a habitat forni, 

 as they differ in no other respect, as far as I can see. 



0. PENDULUM Linn. Mt. (Janala ; moist forest ; epiphytic ; 1500 ft. 

 Mt. Panic; high forest; epiphytic; 1500 ft. 1185, 1773. Tropical Asia, 

 Australia, and Polynesia. 



Helmikthostachys zeylanica Hook. Mt. Mou ; grassy places in shade 

 (old native cultivation terraces) ; cretaceous ; 800 It. 559. Tropical Asia 

 and Australia. 



EQUISETALES. 



EQUISETACE^. 



Equisetum eamosissimum Desv. Mt. Mou ; streamsides ; cretaceous ; 

 700 ft. Mt. Oanala; iu mud by stream; schists; 900 ft. 440, 1162. 



Tropics and sub-tropics. 



The New Caledonian specimens aie comparatively little branched ; they 

 have, liowever, the typical loose lcaf-?heaths of jfe*. ramosissimutn as collected 

 in Aneiteum (McGillivray 60) and Fiji (Seemann 697), and differ from the 

 closely related E. delile Iloxb. as collected in New Guinea (Kloss), which 



has tight sheaths. 



LYCOPODIALES. 



LYCOPODIACE^. 



Lycopodium CARINATUM Desv. Ignambi; epiphytic in forest; 1500ft 

 1853. India, Malaya, Philippines^ Fornjosa, Polynesia. 



L. CERNUUM Linn. Mt. Mou ; abundant in scrub ; serpentine ; 2500 ft. 

 Mt. Koghi ; abundant in Melaleuca-Pteridium association on dry hillsides 

 above 1000 ft.; serpentine. Mt. Oanala; etc. 576, 752. Tro2)ics and sub- 

 tropics. 



L. DENSUM LabilL Mt. Mou ; scrub; serpentine; 2500 ft. and upwards, 

 Nekando ; among shrubs in forest margin ; serpentine ; 3000 ft 630, G35, 

 2129. Australia^ Tasmania, New Zealand, Norfolk Island. 



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