Tmesipteris.] CXLV. LYCOPODIACE Æ. 681 
Spreng. in Schrad. Journ . 1799, ii. 267; Psilotum truncatum, R. Br. 
rod. 164 ; Psilotum Torro Endl. Iconogr. t. 85; Tmesipteris trun- 
cata Desv. i n Ann. Soc. Linn. Par. vi. 192; Hook. Gen. Filic. t. 86; 
p orator, End. Prod. Fl. Nort. 6; Spring, wae Lycop. 265; 
SR f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 155; T. Billardieri, Endl. 1. <6; Spring, Le. 
ueensland. Bellend 
Bay, Dadlachy. ellender Ker Range and Mount Lenten WEB Se 
Sake Wales. Port Jackson to d» Blue Mountains, R, Brown, A. Cunningham 
ers; New England, C. Stua ; Clarence River, Wilcox ; Mawarra, John- 
son; Lord Howe’s Island, C.. Moor 
wile ia. Yarra and Darideiiióg Ranges, Sealer's Cove, Gipps Land, F. 
A Tasmania. Derwent River, R. Brown ; Not uncommon hanging from rocks and 
vallis ot trees, J. D. Hooker, also on moist banks, A. Cunningham. 
Spreng el’s specific name tannensis has been discarded ds weg botanists ipee 
eal and 
Forster's specimens in the British Museum are mar ced a m New Zealand 
not from ‘Tanna, and are probably those designated i oes ee Pro - 
N^ Bina, šoland., trom New a ala üt there is every n to believe that 
S e plant grows in na as in several other islands of the Pacific, and 
oe positiv ely stutes that Forster’ s specimen i s herbari was tha 
i n station given on the authority of two Dena ens in Herb 
" ok. from Douglas, has probably arise slae me accident in sorting specimens, 
or it has not been ; y any subsequent t epllector. The South 
eatin station given by Spring originates in another error, he 
Kangaroo Bottom qi RR for Kangaroo Island. 
F. Mueller observes that the capsules (capsule-like sori) are occas! casionally though 
M ery rarely 3-celled, which would justify the restoring the species to Psilotum where 
rown had placed it, were it not that the habit were so totally differen 
7. PSILOTUM, Swartz. 
Stems dichotomous, with distant notches bearing minute scalelike 
leaves, sometimes scarcely promment, cud p Mice: by MOT 
minute bifid bracts ^ Spore-cases usually 3 together, united 
capsule-lke sorus, sessile in the axil of or attached to the nen nearly 
‘globular, 3- vines 3-celled, opening loculieidally in 3-valves. Spore 
ed unif 
mall tropical and subtropical genus common to the ide and the 9 World. 
a the Vr inq species nei a wide range in Ameri and Asia, but perhaps 
one only in Afric 
Branches, at least EES ales ones somn e a ce eee cr iigiin 
Branches all flat x A ka P. complanatum. 
l. P. triquetrum, Swartz; UM Monogr. Ly [ d, 269.— 
