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specimens bclono-ing to tliis variety Lave been collected in New Caledonia 

 (Yieillard 1687^ Schlecliter 15454), Nornianby Island, Louisiade ArcliipeJao^o 

 (Mueller 127, coll, McGregor), Aneiteum, New Hebrides (McGillivraj), 

 Fiji (Seemaii 704), Upolu (Graeffe), Samoa (Wliitinee)^ Society Islands 

 (Banks and Solander), Tahiti (Cook). 



My specimens vary much according to conditions. 1502, which had a 

 somewhat exposed position on a trunk at 3000 ft., is rather stiffly erect with 

 dense yellowish foliage, 102G, which is of the most frequent form, grew in 

 greater shelter at 1000 ft., and is more lax and drooping with less dense 

 light green leaves. 102Ca, growing with 102G, is a starved crowded speci- 

 men of small stature, weak and drooping ; and no. 1500 is a similar form. 



Lycopodiitm vamum m. Br. Mt, Koghi ; on trunks in forest ; 1500 ft/ 

 794. Australia, Tasmania, New Zoahnid, and Auckland Island. 



L. YOLUBTLE Forst. Mt, Canala ; forest margin; scliists ; 3000 ft, 

 Ignambi ; forest margin ; gneiss ; 3000 ft. 1220. New Zealand, Malaya, 

 N. Australia, Polynesia. 



The strobili are about an inch in length, this being rather shorter than is 



typical — New Zealand jdanis, for instance^ bearing strobili up to 3 inches 



lono\ 



SELAGINELLACE^. 



Selaginklla HORDEIFORMIS Baker. Mt. Koghi ; frequent in forest above 

 500 ft. ; serpentine. 792. Fiji. 



This bundsionie species lias whitish stem-leaves and a dark green expanded 

 frond. It frequently ascends tlio trunks of tree-ferns to a lieiglit of 

 4 or 5 feet by clasping with its rhizome and by inserting rhizopliores among 

 the host^s leaf-bases. 



S. JoiJANi llieron. Ermitage Stream ; in forests near waterside ; ser- 

 pentine ; 300 ft. Mt. Mou ; high forest ; serpentine ; 1500 ft. , 211, 138. 



Differs from its close ally, ^./?'ni?f/ou/^jr Warb. in its short strobili and 

 the short points of its sporophylls. 



S. MEGASTACHYA Baker. Mt. Arago; locally abundant in moist forest; 

 schists ; 1000 ft. 1412. 



All the specimens I have seen agree in a feature in which they difter from 

 Baker's original description— namely, the leaves of the upper jdane are cuspi- 

 date. This applies to specimens determined as aS. megaslaclii^a by Baker 

 himself. The original description is therefore in error. 



S. NEOCALEDONICA Bak 



er, Mt. Mou; high forest; 



form); 2500 ft. Mt. Koghi; in stony Pteridlum 

 (exposed form) ; above 2000 ft. 566, 739. 



serpentine (shelter 

 association ; ser])entine 



