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Hab. Margins of the craters of volcanic mountains, in 

 Java. Dr. Blume. — Allied to L. curvatum of Swartz, (our L. 

 cernuuni, var.), but differing, according to Blume, in its root- 

 ing stem, often bifid spikes, and in the flat and less patent 

 scales. 



45. L. sabinaefolium. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 5. p. 20. 



Caule elongate repente, ramis erectis brevibus dense fas- 

 tigiatim dichotome divisis, foliis undique imbricatis nunc 

 quadrifariis erectis tereti-subulatis aristato-acuminatis, spicis 

 sessilibus cylindraceis solitariis, squamis cordato-acuminatis 

 patentibus integerrimis. — L. alpinum. Mich. Fl. Bor. Amer. 

 V. 2. p. 282. — L. armatum. Desv. Enc. Bot. Suppl. v. 3. p. 544. 



Hab, In Canada. Michaux. Banks of the Saskatchawan. 

 Richardson and Drummond. Java. Dr. Blume. — This Lyco- 

 podium seems to be extremely rare in Canada. We our- 

 selves never saw specimens until they were collected in 

 Captain Sir John Franklin's Second Journey. In habit and 

 fructification it almost exactly resembles L. alpinum; but 

 the leaves in, their insertion, form, and direction, are totally 

 different; the spikes, too, are smaller, and more slender. 

 The true L. alpinum has only recently been found in America, 

 upon the Rocky Mountains. L. sabinafoliimi has probably 

 never hitherto been seen by any other author except 

 Michaux, as all others have placed it in a wrong section. It 

 is very extraordinary that this, which is so extremely rare 

 in North America, should have been found on volcanic 

 mountains in Java. May not Dr. Blume's plant be a distinct 

 species ? 



46. L. diffusum. Br. Prod. p. 165. 

 Hab. Van Dieman's Land. Brown. 



47. L. laterale. Br. Prod. p. 165. Lahill. Sert. Austr. Cal. p. 

 10. t. 15. 



Hab. New Holland. Brown. Sieber. New Caledonia. 

 Lahillardiere. 



48. L. Japonicum. Sw. Syn. Pit. p. 179. 



Hab. In Japan. Thunberg. — This species Avas known even 



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