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terminal on main branches, panicled ; panicles sub-fastigiate, 

 2-4-branched, bearing 3-8 spikes on long slender pedicels, that 

 are sparingly leafy as on main stems, but leaves smaller ; spikes 

 usually 2 together, or 3, or only 1, sometimes bifid or forked, 

 14— If inches long, very narrow, about 1 line wide, sub-cylin- 

 drical ; scales quinquefariously disposed, imbricate, peltate, 

 narrow-ovate-acuminate, brown on centre outside ; margins 

 waved, minutely denticulate ; tips acute and obtuse, spreading. 

 Capsule large, pale greenish-yellow, broadly and transversely 

 oblong or sub-quadrilateral ; valves, margins wavy and slightly 

 erose. Spores white, semi-elliptic, roughish. 



Hab. High lands, " altitude 2,000 feet," north of Gisborne. 

 County of Cook ; 1887 : Mr. W. K. Chambers. 



Obs. This species has a very pleasing miniature tree-like 

 appearance, somewhat resembling some specimens of another 

 New Zealand Lycopodium, L. densum, Labill., but more neat 

 and finely cut, to which species it is also pretty closely allied. 

 From that species, however, its larger more distant and less 

 imbricated curved leaves, its longer and narrower spikes, which 

 are also panicled, and mostly 2 or even 3 together on long 

 slender pedicels, and its peculiarly-shaped capsule abundantly 

 distinguish it. 



§ IV. Leaves distichous. Spikes terminal, terete. . 



3. L. distans, sp. nov. 



Plant "creeping, spreading on surface of the ground;" 

 main stems " long, rooting at nodes." Secondary stems erect, 

 straight, " 4-6 inches apart," 6-8 inches high, sub-cylindrical, 

 slender, woody, irregularly and deeply channelled on the upper 

 surface, leafy, much branched. Branches flat, spreading, sub- 

 flabellate, tri-quadri-pinnatifid ; branchlets dichotonious, 2-3 

 inches long, 2^-3 lines wide ; tips forked, divergent. Leaves 

 distant throughout, (those on secondary stems very distant, 3-4 

 lines apart, sub 2 lines long, obtuse,) regularly disposed, 

 alternate, coriaceous, glabrous, wrinkled, light-green on both 

 sides, of two kinds: (1) the larger, patent, triangular, curved, 

 falcate, tips acute, incurved, largely decurrent; (2) the smaller 

 on under-surface only, sub-tristichous, the lateral ones arising 

 from the decurrent bases of the larger leaves, the central from 

 the middle of stems, linear-acuminate, sub 3 lines long, their 

 bases appressed ; tips acute, wavy, scarious, spreading, appear- 

 ing above in the interspaces between the larger leaves. 

 Peduncles very long, 2-4 inches, slender, erect, simple, forked, 

 dichotomous and trichotomous, leafy; leaves or bracts long 

 narrow, acuminate, erect, scattered, semi-appressed ; tips spread- 

 ing, scarious, membranaceous, jagged, acute. Pedicels 1-3, 

 similar to peduncles, 1-2 inches long, spikes narrow, compact, 



