Lycopodium. | LYCOPODIACER. 1037 
Bracts close-set, broadly ovate, acute but not cuspidate, spreading 
when mature; margins scarious, jagged. Spores echinate.—A. 
Cunn. Precur. n. 153; Raoul, Choix, 37; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1. 
53; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 389; Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 676; Bak. Fern 
Allies, 24; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns, 105. 
Nortu Istanp: Abundant from the North Cape to Poverty Bay and Kawhia, 
usually in light scrub on clay soils. Sour Istanp: Marlborough, Buchanan. 
CHaTtHAM Istanps: Dieffenbach. Sea-level to 3000 ft. 
Also in Norfolk Island, Australia and Tasmania, and New Caledonia. 
5. L. cernuum, Linn. Sp. Plant. 1566.—Stems stout, creeping, 
1-8 ft. long, leafy throughout; primary branches rigidly erect, 
9-18 in. long or more, much branched in the upper portion, usually 
simple below; lower branchlets copiously divided, short, spreading 
or ascending, pendulous towards the tips. Leaves inserted all 
round the stems and branches, crowded, squarrose or incurved 
towards the tips, 4-4 in. long, narrow linear-subulate, decurrent at 
the base, pale soft-green, keeled by the prominent midrib beneath. 
Spikes numerous, solitary and sessile on the incurved or pendulous 
tips of the branchlets, +-$in. long, oblong, obtuse, cylindric. 
Bracts imbricating all round, broadly ovate, narrowed into a long 
cuspidate point; margins denticulate—A. Cunn. Precur. n. 154; 
Raoul, Choiz, 37; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. ii. 54; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 
390; Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 676; Bak. Fern Allwes, 23; Thoms. 
N.Z. Ferns, 105. (2)L. polycephalum, Col. im Trans. N.Z. Inst. 
xxvil. (1895) 401. 
KerrmabrEc Istanps: Sunday Island, in the large crater-bisin, not com- 
mon, 7. F. C. Norru Istanp: From the North Cape to the Hast Cape and 
Taupo, abundant to the north of the Thames and Waikato Rivers, and in great 
profusion in heated soil in the thermal-springs district, from Rotorua to Taupo. 
Sea-level to 2500 ft. 
A common tropical plant all round the world. Frequently luxuriating 
in the neighbourhood of hot springs. 
6. L. laterale, &. Br. Prodr. 165.—Rhizome long, stout, white, 
creeping. Stems numerous, erect or decumbent at the base, 
4-18in. high, stout or slender, simple or sparingly branched, 
the branches erect, cylindric, pale-green, sometimes tinged with 
reddish-brown, leafy from the base. Leaves close-set, spreading 
all round or the upper ascending, $-tin. long, subulate-lanceo- 
late, acuminate, decurrent at the base, firm but hardly coriaceous ; 
midrib evident; margins revolute. Spikes 2-8 to a branch, lateral, 
sessile, simple, erect, 4-2 in. long, oblong, obtuse, often brown or 
reddish-brown. Bracts imbricated, spreading at maturity, broadly 
ovate, suddenly narrowed into a rather long acuminate point; 
margins jagged.—-A. Cunn. Precur. n. 156; Raoul, Choix, 37; Hook. 
