1040 LYCOPODIACEH. | Lycopodium. 
Norte anp SoutH IsLANps, CHATHAM IsLaNDs, STEWART ISLAND, AUCK- 
LAND IstANDS: From the Great Barrier Island and the Manukau Harbour 
southwards, but often local. Sea-level to 5000 ft. 
A handsome and distinct species, a slightly different form of which is found 
in Victoria and Tasmania. It is also very closely allied to the South American 
L. Jussiei, Desv. 
11. L. volubile, Forst. Prodr. n. 482.—Stems 2-8 ft. long or 
more, branched, scrambling over bushes or rocks, slender, wiry, 
flexuose, with distant minute linear -subulate appressed leaves. 
Branches numerous, leafy, compressed, pinnately or flabellately 
decompound; branchlets forked, the ultimate ones 4-3 in. long, 
4-lin. broad including the leaves. Leaves dimorphous, the larger 
distichously spreading, $4 in. long, with a broad adnate decurrent 
base, ascending, lanceolate, strongly faleate, acuminate, midrib evi- 
dent, oblique, texture firm; smaller leaves much reduced in size, 
linear, appressed. Spikes very numerous, 1-4 in. long, #,in. broad, 
cylindrical, pendulous, arranged in large terminal much-branched 
panicles 6-24 in. long. Bracts imbricating, small, not much longer 
than the sporangia, broadly ovate or almost orbicular, suddenly 
narrowed into an erect subulate point.—A. Cunn. Precur. n. 158; 
Raoul, Choix, 37; Hook. and Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 170; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. 
Zel. ii. 55; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 391; Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 677; Bak. 
Fern Allies, 29; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns, 107; L. D’Urvillei, A. Rich. Fi. 
Nouv. Zel. 60 (not of Bory). 
Nort AnD SoutH IsLtanps, STEWART ISLAND, CHATHAM Is~tanDs: Abund- 
ant throughout, usually forming entangled masses among low scrub. Sea- 
level to 3000 ft. Waewaekoukou. 
By far the most beautiful species of the genus. It extends to Polynesia, 
New Caledonia, North Australia, the mountains of New Guinea, Java, Borneo, 
and the Malay Peninsula. 
3. TMESIPTERIS, Bernh. 
Rhizome creeping, sparingly branched; true roots wanting. 
Stems simple or rarely forked, pendulous or ascending, leafy. 
Leaves vertically placed, of two kinds; the foliage-leaves sessile and 
decurrent, simple and entire; the fertile leaves or sporophylls 
mixed with the foliage-leaves and about the same size, shortly 
petiolate, bipartite. Sporangia (or synangia) attached to the 
petiole of the fertile leaf just below the lobes, boat-shaped or 
spindle-shaped, coriaceous, pointed at both ends, slightly con- 
stricted about the middle, 2-celled with the septum across the 
narrow diameter, dehiscing longitudinally ; rarely the sporangia are 
3-celled or 1-celled. Spores minute, oblong. 
A genus consisting of one highly variable species, found in New Zealand, 
Australia and Tasmania, and some of the Pacific islands. By some authors it 
is split up into 3 or 4, distinguished mainly by the shape of the apex of the leaf 
(which I find to be variable even in the same individual) and by certain histo- 
logical details, the constancy of which has yet to be established. 
