646 LYCOPODIACEjE. 



mutely ciliate, middle ones semiovate, pointed ; bracts conform, 4-stichous, cuspidate. — S. 

 sulcangnla, Spring I: a large form, its steins erect, simple below. — Leaves rigid, £"'-!"' 

 long,— Hab. Jamaica!, Pd. ; [Cuba !, Wr. 939, to Brazil!]. 



7. S. flabellata, Spring. Stem stout, erect, pyramidal-branched above, continuous : 

 secondary branches approximate, dense, pinnately alternate ; leaves ovate-oblong, acute at 

 the subfalcate summit, upward half-cordate at the base, entire at the lower, slightly serru- 

 late at the upper margin, middle ones obliquely elliptical, mucrouate ; bracts conform, 

 4-stichous, acuminate. — Plum. Fil. t. 43, inf. sinistr. — Lycopodiuin, L. — 8"- 2' high; 

 leaves of the branches V" long. — Hab. Dominica !, Imr., S. Vincent !, Guild.; [Freuch 

 islands !, Sieb. Mart. 232 ; Panama ! to Peru ! and Brazil ! ; Pacific islands !; East Indies ! 

 to South China !]. 



5. albonitens, Spring. A West Indian species, distinguished from all others by com- 

 pressed aments and ditform bracts, has not yet been sent from the British islands. 



** Stem jointed at the origin of branches. 



8. S. stolonifera, Spring. " Stem creeping, distichous-branched, jointed ; leaves del- 

 toid, pointed, denticulate, middle ones falcate, acuminate ; aments short : bracts 4-stichous, 

 conform." — Lyeopodium, Sw. — Hab. Jamaica (Sw.) ; [Cuba ; Haiti]. 



9. S. ciliauricula, Spring. " Stem creepiug, distichous-branched, jointed ; leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate, pointed, long-ciliate at the base, middle oues falcate, acuminate, long- 

 ciliate ; bracts conform, 4-stichous, shortly acuminate." — S. muioides, Spring (ex parte), sec. 

 A. Br. — Hab. Trinidad {Sieb.., Cr. sec. A. Br.) ; [Venezuela]. 



2. LYCOPODIUM, L. 



Sporangia reniform, 1 -celled, 2 valved : spores 00. — Leaves many-k-serial . 

 * Sporangia in aments. 

 t Sterile leaves of two kinds. 



10. I<. scariosum, Forst. Ascending ; leaves adnate-decurrent, those of the sterile 

 branches difform, anterior larger, 2-serial-lateral, spreading, subfalcate-oblong or ovate- 

 oblong, pointed, posterior ^-serial, lanceolate, scarious at the tapering point, conform to 

 the 6-serial leaves of the fertile branches ; bracts in cylindrical aments, deltoid-acuminate, 

 scarious above. 



[o. Aments sessile or shortly peduncled.] 



j8. Jussicei, Desv. Fertile branches produced into long, divided peduncles. — Hook. Ic. 

 t. 186. — L. Gayanum, Clos, in PI. Philippi, 553. 



Hab. Jamaica !, Pd., Bancr., S. Georges, Moorce's Gap (#) ; [£, Venezuela! to Fuegi* ; 

 o, New Zealand !, Tasmania], 



11. I*, complanatum, L. Ascending ; leaves subulate-lanceolate, adnate-decurrent, 

 those of the sterile, flatfish branches ^-serial, larger 2-serial-lateral, of the smaller ones 

 one series anterior, the other posterior ; aments peduncled, fastigiate, 12-2 : bracts broadly 

 subulate, scarious at the point. — Schk. Crypt, t. 163.— L. thyoides, Kth. : the tropical 

 larger form with the aments usually more numerous. — Hab. Jamaica !, Pd., Bancr., Blue 

 Mountains ; [temperate regions of the globe]. 



12. Ii. carolinianum, L. Creepiug, with erect peduncles ; leaves of the creeping 

 branches ditform, lateral 2-serial, oblong-lanceolate, pointed, anterior lanceolate-linear, 

 nearly as long, irregularly 2-serial, conform to those of the peduncle, posterior none ; 

 aments siugle, cylindrical : bracts subulate, 8-serial. — L. repens, Sw. — Hab. Trinidad !, 

 Pd., in savannahs ; [United States ! to Brazil !; trop. Africa ! to the Cape ! ; East Indies ! ; 

 Tasmania !]. 



tt Sterile leaves conform. 



13. Ii. clavatum, L. Creeping with ascending, leafy branches; leaves many-serial, 

 conform, incurved-spreading, lanceolate or linear-acuminate with a terminal hair, decres- 

 cent along the peduncle ; aments cylindrical, fastigiate, 8-2: bracts peltate-deltoid, seta- 



