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grow weedy and rank. They should be planted toward the end of the rains (Octo- 
ber) so as to be well established when the dry season sets In. 
REFERENCES: 
Lycopersicon lycopersicum (L.) Karst. Deutsch. Fl. 966. 1880-83. 
Solanum lycopersicum L, Sp. Pl. 1: 185. 1753. 
Lycopersicon esculentum Mill, Gard. Dict. ed. 8. 1768. 
Lycopersicum esculentum. Same as Lycopersicon lycopersicum. 
Lycopodium cernuum. SAVANNA LYCOPODIUM. PLATE Y. 
Family Lycopodiaceae. 
LocaL NAMes. Amigos, Gauay (Philippines); Wawae iole (Hawaii); Azufre 
vegetal (Cuba). 
A lycopodium growing on the ground, especially common on the treeless high- 
lands of Guam called ‘“sabanas.’’ Stem erect, hard, stiff, terete, about 60 cm. high 
or more, with numerous spreading, flexuose, repeatedly forking branches, each branch- 
let at last terminating in a sessile, cylindrical, mostly nodding spike; leaves awl- 
shaped, 2 to 4mm. long, those of the stem irregular in 8 ranks, erect and appressed 
in the lower portion, those of the branches crowded, incuryed; bracts in 8 ranks, 
appressed, ovate, 2mm. long, contracting below, denticulate, cuspidate, much longer 
than the capsules; capsules minute, globular, without a basal incisure; spores smooth. 
Common throughout the Tropics, often associated with Gleichenia dichotoma. Its 
Hawaiian name signifies ‘‘rat’s-foot.”? It was first collected in Guam by Haenke. 
The form occurring in Guam is called by Baker variety marianum, 
REFERENCES: 
Lycopodium cernuum L. Sp. Pl. 2:1108. 1753. 
Lycopodium marianum Willd. Same as Lycopodium cernuun. 
Lycopodium mirabile Willd. Same as Lycopodium phlegmaria. 
Lycopodium, pendant. See Lycopodium phlegmaria. 
Lycopodium phlegmaria. PENDANT LYCOPODIUM. PLATE LVII. 
Loca, NAMEs.—Cordon de San Francisco (Spanish). 
A Lycopodium usually growing on the trunks and branches of trees, in long, pen- 
dulous tufts. Leaves mostly lanceolate, spreading, 6 mm. or more long, sometimes 
elliptical or oblong and obtuse; spikes slender, at the ends of the branches, usually 
several, often forked several times; bracts imbricated, usually in 4 rows, broad, 
scarcely exceeding the capsules in common forms, but sometimes pointed and longer. 
Very common in the forests of Guam, associated with Nephrolepis acuta, Davatlia 
solida, Polypodium phymatodes, Asplenium nidus, and other epiphytal ferns. Gaudi- 
chaud states that the natives considered it a symbol of fecundity, but I could find 
no evidence that this idea prevails at the present day. 
In referring to the specimen obtained by him in Guam, Gaudichaud says: 
I owe this plant to the kindness so often put to proof of Don Luis de Torres, the 
most estimable man of the Marianne Islands, not only through his birth, his dis- 
tinguished rank in this country, but also on account of his intellect, his education, 
and the rare philanthropic virtues which characterize him. This excellent old gen- 
tleman broke off the fragment which I possess from an enormous branch which he 
carefully preserved at the head of his bed, near his holy-water font. 
The species is very widely spread throughout the islands of the Pacific and the 
East Indies. ; 
REFERENCES: 
Lycopodium phlegmaria .. Sp. Pl, 2:1100. 1753. 
Lycopodium, savanna. See Lycopodium cernuum. 
Lygodium microphyllum Rk. Br. Same as Lygodium scandens microphyllum. 
