G76 CXLV. LYCOPODIACEA. | Lycopodium. 
which Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 156, refers it as a variety, but a much 
smaller, more rigid plant, the procumbent stems more branched and very 
shortly ascending. Leaves linear, acute or almost os rarely above 
2 lines long, spre aiia. or almost imbricate. Spikes of Z. laterale, 
usually brown, lateral, sessile or scarcely pedunculate. 
Victoria. Grampians, Dalto 
Tasmania. Port de Le laee e, R. Brown ; Alpine Bogs, Lake St. Clair, ete. 
T: Macquarrie Harbour, Milligan ; near Circular Head, F. Mueller. 
rnuum, Linn. ; Spring, Monogr. Lycop. i. 79, ii. 37.— 
Stems hard, rising to 2 ft. or when very luxuriant to 5 or 6 6 ft. in uii 
with numerous spreading flexuose repeatedly forked branches. Leaves 
spreading all round the stem, fine, subulate, incurved, 1 to 2 lines long. 
Spikes sessile above the last leaves, nodding, 2 to 8 lines long. racts 
ovate-lanceolate, ciliate, imbricate in 8 rows, longer than the spore- 
eases, 
N. Australia. Upper Victoria River, F. Muel 
Queensland. Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; palin River, Fitzalan ; Bowen, 
Common throughout the tropics in the New as well as the Old World. 
. L, densum, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 104, t. 251.—Stems from 
a short creeping base, erect, rigid, usually 1 to 1i but sometimes 2 to 
4 ft. high, very densely branched in the upper part. Leaves crowded 
all round, those of n mai stem lanceolate with scarious tips and 
long. Spike merous, term ual, erect and sessile, from under z in. 
to 1 in. oie” “Brao sts ovate-lanceolate, with spreading tips often 
R. Br. Prod. gr. 
i. 86, ii. s Hook.f Fl. Tasm. ii. 156; F. Muell. v.111; Sieb. Syn. 
Filic. n. 82. 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, A. Cunningham, Fraser; New 
England, C. Stuart, 3 
Victoris. rampians, Sullivan ; Mount Cobberas, Imlay; Upper Yarra River, 
F. Mueller ; Cape Howe, Walter. 
T Labillardiére; Derwent River and Port Dalrymple, R. Brown; 
abundant in heathy places elici the island, J. D. Hooker. 
Also in New Zealand and Norfolk Island. 
cario e Forst. ; Spring, Monogr. Lycop. i. 108, ii. 49.— 
ostrate meque sometimes to a great length, with selene 
s pro 
sort ascending bra Leaves distichously spreading, po A 
te, acute, mm. aaar 2 lines long, with sm resse 
stipule iks ones betw the two rows S es META usually 
She - Mount Mad. and sources ofthe Yarra, F. Mueller. 
