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pinnae are also very much narrower, and adnate, with sub- 

 crenulate margins. Those four species form a compact little 

 natural group. 



II. After long search, I found 4 small scales at the bases 

 of 2 stipites. These are very short, about 1 line long, black, 

 subulate, with a broad membranous and entire base, and largo 

 black oblong cells. 



Ordee II.— LYCOPODIACE^. 



Genus 2. Lycopodium, Linn. 

 1. L. novcB-zealandicum, sp. nov. 



Plant small, dependent, lax, soft ; main stem slender, 3-4 

 inches long, single, leafy to base, once forked at top ; forks ^-1 

 inch long, cyhndrical. Leaves sub-trifarious, glabrous, shining 

 pale-green, spotted with brown dots, lowermost rather dis- 

 tant, loose, spreading, recurved, sub-linear-spathulate, 4-6 lines 

 long, ^ line wide, transversely wrinkled, narrowed at base and 

 slightly decurrent ; tips sub-acuminate, obtuse, thickened, nerve 

 broad and strong ; margins entn-e, pale, sub-cartilaginous ; 

 upper leaves much smaller, closer, imbricate, sub-appressed, 

 nerve obsolete. Capsules axillary in upper leaves of main stem 

 and on forks, large for plant, orbicular with a deep sinus, broader 

 than base of leaf, yellow ; valves gaping, thickened at margms ; 

 spores sub-orbicular, minutely roughish. Scale- or capsule- 

 leaves on forks, sub 2 lines long, subulate, erect, very obtuse at 

 tips, much dilated at base, claspmg. 



Hab. Epiphytical on fern-trees, open marshy glades in low 

 forest, bank of Kiver Mangatawhainui, near Norsewood, County 

 of Waipawa; 1886: W.C. 



Obs. I. Of this little plant I obtained five specimens from 

 three fern-trees, two of them in full fructification and nearly alike 

 in size and shape ; two of the barren specimens were a little 

 larger (4-5 inches, main stem), but much the same in form ; 

 their colour greener. 



II. This is a small species of the Selago section ; apparently 

 pretty closely allied to L. taxifoUum, Sw., {ap. Jig. Hook, et 

 Grev. Gen. Filicwn, tab. Ixxxviii.,) a Jamaica and St. Helena 

 species ; but that plant is much larger, and its leaves are sub- 

 sexfarious, rigid, and acute, and its capsules reniform. This 

 plant is also nearly allied to L. gnidioides, Linn., a Cape and 

 Mauritius species. It differs much from its nearest New Zea- 

 land ccyigener, L. varium., Br., in its much smaller size, in its 

 narrower leaves of a different shape, being more lax and remote, 

 and not so thickly set around the stem, in the total absence of 

 quadrangular spikes, its differently-shaped capsules, and its 

 softness. Sir J. D. Hooker has given no less than five draw- 

 ings of different forms of that variable species in his "Flora 



