Lycopodium. | LYCOPODIACES. 1039 
9. L. fastigiatum, Rh. Br. Prodr. 165.—Main stem or rhizome 
stout, creeping, subterranean, 6-24in. long or more; primary 
branches rather distant, 3-14in. long, stout, erect, rigid, often 
naked below, copiously fastigiately branched above; branchlets 
crowded. Leaves imbricated all round the branches, crowded, 
spreading and then incurved at the tips, $-tin. long, linear or 
linear-lanceolate, acute or shortly mucronate, not hair-pointed, 
entire, firm, midrib indistinct. Spikes peduncled, often two to- 
gether, terminating the upper branchlets or several in a centrak 
panicle, 2-2 in. long, rarely more, about 4 in. diam., erect, cylindric. 
Bracts closely imbricate, broadly ovate at the base, narrowed up- 
wards into a long spreading or recurved cuspidate point.—Bak. Fern 
Alites, 27. L. clavatum var. magellanicum, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 
113; Fl. Nov. Zel. 1.54; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 390; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns,. 
106, but scarcely L. magellanicum, Swartz. L. clavatum var. 
fastigiatum, Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 675. L. curvifolium and 
L. scopulosum, Col. m Trans. N.Z. Inst. xx. (1888) 234, 235. 
L. decurrens, Col. l.c. xxviii. (1896) 617. 
Norru Isuanp: Hilly and mountainous localities from Cape Colville to: 
Cook Strait, but local to the north of the Hast Cape. SourH IsLanp, CHATHAM 
Istanps, Stewarr IsLaNnD, AUCKLAND AND CAMPBELL ISLANDS, ANTIPODES 
Isuanp: Abundant throughout. Sea-level to 5000 ft. 
Also in Victoria and Tasmania, and very close to some forms of the widely 
distributed L. clavatum, Linn., from which it is chiefly distinguished by the 
absence of hair-points to the leaves and their entire margins. 
10. L. scariosum, Forst. Prodr. n. 484.—Main stems prostrate 
or creeping, stout, branched, 1-3 ft. long; branches numerous, rigid, 
erect or ascending, copiously divided, 3-12in. long; branchlets 
flattened, 4-21in. broad including the leaves. Leaves of the main 
stem inserted all round, appressed, lanceolate or subulate-lanceo- 
late, with acute scarious tips; of the branchlets dimorphous, the 
larger distichously spreading and flattened, about ¢in. long, ascend- 
ing, much decurrent at the base, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 
acute or acuminate, falcate, coriaceous, dark-green or yellow-green ; 
smaller leaves on one side of the branchlets, subulate-lanceolate, 
appressed, usually with scarious tips. Spikes solitary at the end of 
the branchlets, 1-2in. long, about in. diam., on long or short 
peduncles clothed with appressed imbricate leaves. Bracts closely 
imbricated, broadly ovate at the base, narrowed upwards into a long 
spreading or recurved scarious tip; margins often toothed.—Hook. 
Ic. Plant. t. 966; Raoul, Choix, 37; Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 112; 
Fl. Nov. Zel. 1. 55; Handb. N.Z. Fi. 390; Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 
676; Bak. Fern Allies, 29; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns, 107. lL. Lesso- 
nianum, A. Fich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 59; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 152. 
L. distans, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xx. (1888) 236. 
