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LYCOPODIACEiE. 



Lycopodium varium, R.Br. — See Hemsley's list, p. 260 {op. 

 cit.); also B.Fl. vii. p. 674. It would be desirable to enquire 

 whether L. varium has really come from Lord Howe Island, or 

 whether a mainland plant has not been substituted through 

 inadvertence, 



L. nutans, Brackr., from Lord Howe Island, is in the herbarium 

 of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney. 



Following are the bibliographical notes referred to : — 



Baker, J. G. "Ferns of Lord Howe Island." Gardeners 

 Chronicle, 24th February, 1872, p. 253. 



"I cannot, from the dry fronds, separate one from the well- 

 known Alsophila excelsa of Norfolk Island." He adds that this 

 is not a final judgment. The other is Hemitelia Moorei, Baker, 

 n.sp. These are the two tree-ferns referred to in Dr. G. Bennett's 

 letter in the Gard. Chron. of 27th January, 1872. He describes 

 another new fern under the name of Deparia nejjhrodioides. 

 (The latter species was subsequently figured in Hooker's Icones 

 Plantarum, t. 1608.) 



Baker, J. G. "New Ferns from Lord Howe Island." Jonrit. 

 Bat xi. 16 (1873). 



Two ferns collected by the Eclipse Expedition of 1871, viz. : — 

 Todea {Leptopteris) Moorei and Asplenitim (Darea) pteridoides. 

 The former species was in 1887 figured in Hooker's Icones 

 Plantarum, t. 1697, and the latter at t. 1649. 



Baker, J. G. "Tree-fern from Lord Howe Island." Journ. 

 Bat. xii. 279 (1874). 



" The fine tree-fern described by Baron von Mueller in the part 

 of his Fragmenta just received (% iii. y>- 176) under the name of 

 Hemitelia Macarthuri is identical with the Cyathea Moorei of the 

 yet unpublished 2nd Ed. of Hooker and Baker's Syn. Filicthm, 

 p. 453." 



Bennett, G. Gardeners' Chronicle, 27th January, 1872, 



Dr. Bennett writes that Mr. W. Oarron went in H.M.S. 

 •" Rosario" to Lord Howe Island. " My object is to direct your 



