CXLV. LYCOPODIACEJE. 673 
3. LYCOPODIUM, Linn. 
Stems leafy, hard, branching, creeping prostrate or erect. Leaves 
small, entire or minutely vere inserted all round the stem, usuall 
in 4 rows, Spore-cases all of one kind, rina i celled, : inis 
sessile in the axils of the upper is or of bra ually smaller or 
roader than the stem-leaves and forming tenue d or lateral spikes. 
Spores all minute and powdery. 
The genus is widely spread over every part of the globe. Of the eleven Australian 
Species, Ed af generally distributed in the 2 and the Old M one limited to 
the Old W. d, the seven others are in New Zealand, five of them extending to the 
Pacific nc and two to South Amer 
Leaves org oy cartilaginous, crowded all round the stem, 
6 lines lon 
Stems short, erect. Spore-cases in the axils of the iae 
leav 1, Z. selago. 
puse elongated, ascending. Spikes t E 
eral. Bracts smaller than the pirato “but 
u e pes the spore-cases . 2. L. variun. 
Stems elongate nlous, Spikes terminal, several. 
1 end 
Bracts d excoadi ing rage spore 3. L. phlegmaria. 
Leaves usually rowded round Ed xii under 3 
Ue long. "paro: NM in spikes, with small broad 
rac 
Spikes s peduncu 
Ste ms extensively creeping with Manes womens 
eafy branches. Spikes term js 4. L. clavatum. 
Stems creeping, short or sc dnd [^ ched. Spik es 
single on lateral erect ei dti. mall 
aves : 
Spikes — lateral: 
Stems b iue at the base, died and slender. 
5. I. carolinianum. 
,,Lenves s ibula 6. L.. laterale. 
ma diffuse, sph much branched. Leav . . T. Le difusun. 
Spiker sessile, terminal, usually short. a ng a 
above 2 ft. 
Branches numerous, spreading or flexuose. E 
nodding . : 8. L. cernuum. 
. 9. L. densum, 
Stems and branches erect, dense. ‘Spikes erect . . 
(See also the first two species of SELAGINELLA.) 
Leaves morum and decumbent in 2 opposite rows, with 
smaller adnate ones pront fi cdi is Spikes scolis, 
Dist Or pan iculate. la B ts with 
stichous "onse broadly lanceolate, rac 10. L. scariosum, 
a leaves natrow-lanc eolate. ^ Bracts ‘with ap- 
ssed tips p> exceeding the spore-cases . 11. L. volubile. 
(Most species of SeLacınELLA have the foliage of the last two species, but are more 
delicate and diffuse besides the difference in the spore-cases.) 22 
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