Lycopodium. | CXLV. LYCOPODIACER. 677 
Tasmania, Table Mountain (Mou 4 Ad 1l 
ME ts T Lei Á D n : ngeh R. Brown, Gunn ; common on 
Also in New Zealand and in Antarctic America. 
ll. L. volubile, Forst.; Spring, Monogr. Lycop. i. 105, ii. 49.— 
Stems slender, wiry, flexuose, climbing to a great extent, so een 
harrow appre essed leaves, but emitting “numerous leafy branches, with 
two rows of distichously spreading leaves as in Z4 scariosum, but much 
narrower, faleate, decurrent, smooth and shining, with mucronate tips, 
the small appressed leaves as in Z. scariosum. Spikes when present 
numerous, sessile at the ends of the branches, } to 13 in. long, slender. 
Bracts broad, closely mies peer acuminate but without spreading 
mm ok. and Grev. Ie. Fili 17 
alia. Glenelg River, i A single d without fructification, 
lenel 
but [riori vmm to this speci as wellas in New Zealand 
and the Sandwich Islands. Spring ive also the station King Guanes Sound, 
Quoy in herb. Webb, but this: is probably a mistake. 
4, SELAGINELLA, Spring. 
Stems leafy, usually m 
Lycopodium. Leaves sm nall, eutire or 1 inutely serrate, inserted all 
round the stem but in four Spore-cases of two k small ones 
filled with minute, powdery spores called microspores, and larger coa- 
taining 1 to 6 larger spores called macrospores, all opening in 4 
valves and sessile in the axils of bracts in terminal spikes. 
The genus has the same wide range as L d 
e Malayan Arc d ert. one of 
three extend into tropical ex or at pes yan ipe 1 
em is also in America, two others ‘ay ya endemic, but the species have in 
phists that the exact limits of the 
many instances been so AREE x "monogra 
a careful revision ofthe whole genus. 
really distinct ones cannot be given withou 
sence of two kinds of spores, is proba ably n but 
The generic characte > he p 
requires a eres observation to verify it. Bm noe Leid: enerally pe to 
distinguish it from L; used although the ur species have 
of Y Lone have that of Selopinliés 
of ere (but smaller) and the last two 
Small oo LRA — allsimilar. Spikes slender, 
cts imbricate in 4 rows. 
Mee from a b mee sinn: — about 1 in. long . S. Preissiana. 
Stems branchi rds, 2 to 6 in. or sometimes mens ; s S. uliginosa. 
Stem-leaves in two outer row distant and sp 2, 
inner rows closely t Spikes Tema the 
acts imbricate in ws. 
Stems bare at the e ascending or erect, very m uch 
br — d upwards to a a length and — of 6 to 
LU outline ) ^ ae. o Jlabellatua. 
ur creeping an much branche 4. S. concinna. 
Bice teaver oe ana habit of 5. cin or ne uch zu LS 
oblo; p as b resembling the i 
st ene mate S. Belangert. 
i. 61.—4Àn erect slender 
1. S, Pre: , Spring, Monogr. Lycop. ii. 
anuual of 1 to 2 in., divided at the base into simple or once for 
