94 EIGHTEENTH REPORT. 



Lycopodium complanatum var. sharonense (S. F. Blake), N. 

 Comb. 



Li/copodium tristachyum var. Sharonense S. F. Blake, Fern Bull., 

 18, 9-10, 1910. 



Similar to the preceding but the free portion of the leaves are 

 spreading or recurved. Keweenaw Peninsula, No. 746 a, July 12, 

 1890. Rare. 



Lycopodium complanatum var. alpinum (Lin.), Spring, Flora, 

 1, 180, 1838. 



Lycopodium alpinum Lin., Sp. PL, 1104, 1753. 



The stems are close to the surface; leaves unequal, ascending, 

 in 4 ranks; spikes sessile. Keweenaw Peninsula, No. 849, June 30, 

 1895. Bare. 



Three other varieties may be confidentially looked for. These 

 are: var. Wibbei, Harberer, which is similar to the var. flabella- 

 tum but with the spike solitary; lycopodium complanatum var. 

 PSEUDOALPiNUM, N. var., briefly described as like the specific type 

 but with sessile spikes, a transition toward the var. alpinum; and 



LYCOPODIUM COMPLANATUM Var. SITCHENSE (RupP.), N. Comb. 



{Lycopodium Sitchense Rupr., Beitr. Pfl. Russ, Reich., 3, 30, 1845). 

 Variety Pseudoalpinum is well represented by plate 233. Journal 

 of Botany, Vol. 20, 1882. 



Department of Botany, Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit, Mich. 



