CoLENso. — On Nctv Cryptogavis. 617 



lower pair not arising from midrib ; sinuses short, rather 

 narrow ; lobes very small at base, sub 1 line long ; apical 

 lobe sub lin. long, ovate, tip obtuse ; rhachis slender, chan- 

 nelled, colour of frond; stipe stout at base, purple -brown. 

 Fertile frond (usually shorter, but some as long as barren) 

 ascending, flexuous, very slender (filiform) sub iin. wide, pin- 

 nate below ; lobes very small, distant, and opposite, forming 

 little balls of sori around rhachis, pinnato-pinnatifid above, 

 Jin. apart, very narrow, sub 1 line wide, adnate, largely de- 

 current also current upwards. Involucres narrow, entire, con- 

 tinuous to very tip. 



Hab. On slopes near the sea, Weber district, East Coast, 

 County of Patangata : Mr. H. Hill ; November, 1895. 



Obs. This species approaches near to L. aggregata, Col. 

 (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xx., p. 228), but differs in several con- 

 stant characters, apparent on close comparison. It is also 

 naturally allied to some other of our small Loviarice, as 

 L. lanceolata, Spreng., L. mernbranacea, Col., L. jmmtla, 

 Eaoul, L. oHgoiieuron, Col., and L. intermedia. Col. (loc. cit.). 



Order II. Lycopodiace^. 

 Genus 2. Lycopodium, Linn. 



§ III. Leaves imbricated all round the stem ; spikes terete, 



peduncled. 



1. L. decurrens, sp. nov., Col. (non Brown). 



Plant small, liin. high erect (a single specimen gathered 

 without basal portion), 4-branched, three of its branches 

 being forked, main stem and branches leafy alike, branches 

 sub lin. long spreading. Leaves quadrifariously disposed, 

 loosely imbricate, erect and subllexuous, subulate, 2 lines long ; 

 tips acute, slightly incurved, dull-green, glabrous and shining ; 

 peduncles terminal, slender, erect, iin. long, striate, pale, 

 dry, bracteate ; bracts linear, subopposite, 2-3—4 together, 

 distant, pale, rather thin ; tips obtuse. Spikes solitary, sub 

 lin. long, narrow linear, y\)in. wide, brownish. Scales small, 

 peltate, subsquarrosely spreading, ovate-acuminate, j^^n. long, 

 tips acute, bases rounded and much produced, slightly toothed, 

 thin ; the uppermost scales with tips less acuminate, obtuse, 

 dilated, and thin, their lower lateral margins slightly toothed. 

 Capsule narrow reniform, -J line long, glabrous. 



Hab. Ruahine Mountain-range, east side : Mr. E. W. An- 

 lireics ; 1895. 



Obs. A species very near to L. scopulosmn, Col. (Trans. 

 N.Z. Inst., vol. XX., p. 234), and to its allies, as mentioned 

 there. 



