1038 LYCOPODIACE, (Lycopodium. 
f. Fl. Nov. Zel. ii. 53; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 389; Benth. Fl. Austral. 
vil. 675; Bak. Fern Allies, 28; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns, 106. lL. consi- 
milis, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi. (1884) 348. 
NortH anD SourH IsLANps, CHatHAM IsLANDS: Abundant in swampy or 
peaty ground throughout. Sea-level to 2500 ft. 
Also found in Australia, from Queensland to Victoria, and in New Cale- 
donia. 
7. L. ramulosum, 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xi. (1879) 456, 
t. 198.—Rhizome creeping, branched. Stems 2-9 in. long, prostrate 
or procumbent, usually much branched and densely intermatted, 
but sometimes lax and open; branches ascending at the tips, pale- 
green, often tinged with reddish, leafy throughout. Leaves rather 
close, spreading or ascending, about 4in. long, subulate-lanceolate, 
mucronate, decurrent at the base, keeled, firm but scarcely coria- 
ceous, quite entire. Spikes solitary and sessile at the end of short 
leafy branchlets, sometimes terminating the main branches; occa- 
sionally the branches are so much reduced that the spike becomes 
lateral as in ZL. laterale, +-4in. long, oblong, obtuse, brown or 
reddish-brown. Bracts imbricated, ascending, broadly ovate, 
abruptly acuminate or cuspidate, coriaceous; margins entire or 
slightly toothed.—Bak. Fern Allies, 25; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns, 105. 
SoutH Isnanp: Nelson—Vicinity of Westport, W. Townson! Westland— 
Near Hokitika, W. Tipler; Kumara, J. W. Brame! Okarito, A. Hamilton! 
SrEwart Isuanp: Paterson’s Inlet, Kirk! Usually in open peaty land or in 
swampy woods. Sea-level to 2000 ft. 
Differs from L. laterale and the Australian L. diffusum in the procumbent 
and densely matted habit, and in the usually terminal spikes. 
8. L. Drummondii, Spring. Monog. Lycop. ii. 35.—* Main stem 
trailing, branched, 2-4in. long or more, sending out rootlets and 
distant stiffly erect simple fertile branches 2-6 in. long. Leaves of 
trailing stem crowded, lanceolate, ascending, much imbricated, 
glossy, pale-green, entire, firm in texture, ¢in. long; midrib 
obscure; those of the peduncle much laxer, stiffly erecto-patent, 
very decurrent. Spikes simple, 4-4in. long, sometimes inter- 
rupted; bracts rigid, deltoid-cuspidate, erecto-patent, greenish- 
yellow, ;4,-4in. long.’—Bak. Fern Alues, 19. LL. carolinianum, 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. ii. 54; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 390; Benth. 
Fil. Austral. vii. 675; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns, 106 (not of Linn.). LL. ser- 
pentinum, Kunze in Pl. Pretss. 11. 108. 
Nortu Isnanp: Auckland—North Cape district, in some locality between 
Ahipara and Cape Maria van Diemen, Colenso. 
This has not been collected since its first discovery by Mr. Colenso in 1839, 
and in the absence of further information I have reproduced the description 
given by Mr. Baker in his “Fern Allies.” It is also found in Australia, and is 
very closely allied to the tropical L. carolinianwm, Linn., principally differing 
in the stem-leaves being all similar, and not dimorphic. 
