104 Underwood and Lloyd : Lycopodium 



i. 



Meth. Bot. 3: 653. 1789. 



Martiniqu 



ipodit 



1788.— Fl. 



Ind. Occ. 3: 1 571. 1806. (Type from Jamaica, and cites 



same plates as Lamarck.) Not L. squarrosum Forst. 1786. 

 Lycopodium reflexnm Willd. Sp. PI. 5 : 52. 181 o. (Type from 



"Amer. merid." ; apparently described independently by 



Willdenow, overlooking Lamarck's name.) 

 Lycopodium bifidum H. & B.; Willd. Sp. PL 5 : 53. 18 10. (Type 



from "Amer. mend.") 

 Lycopodium eversum Poir. Encyc. Meth. Bot. SuppL 3: 556. 



• . 18 1 3. (Based on L. reflexnm Willd. not Lam.) 

 Lycopodium reversum Presl, Rel. Haenk. I : 82. 1825. (Type 



from Guayaquil.) 



In the above long synonymy we have a hint of wide distribu- 

 tion and a considerable degree of variability, which was aggravated 

 by the citation in Lamarck's original description of two plates that 

 did not belong to the species, which he described as having re- 

 flexed leaves, viz.: Plumier, Fil. pi. i66 y f. A, and Dillen, Hist. 

 Muse. pi. 57, f. 4, which were later separated as a distinct species. 



Range: Cuba {Wright 93 j), Porto Rico, Jamaica, Haiti 

 {Nash 557), Guadeloupe {Perrhi), Mexico, Guatemala {J. D. Smith 

 504, Maxon 3560), Colombia, Bolivia. 



2. Lycopodium rigidum Gmelin, Syst. Nat. ed. 13. 2: 1289. 

 1791. (Founded on Dillen, Hist. Muse.//. 37, f. 4.) 

 This figure of Dillen represents the rigid form of the plant, 

 which has often passed as L. reflexnm . Dillen's figure according 

 to his own statement is copied from Plumier (Fil. pi. 166, f. A.) 9 

 so that by some L. rigidum might be regarded as a synonym of 

 L. reflexion Lam.* 



* In the whole matter of the determination of types a certain amount of plain ordi- 

 nary common sense must be used. In this instance we have in the West Indies two 

 closely allied plants whose imperfect original descriptions both cite the same plates. 

 One plant has notably reflcxed leaves while the other has rigid leaves. It was evi- 

 dently this character in each case that suggested the names rejlexum and rigidum. 

 Lamarck clearly had the plant whose leaves are lax and consequently become reflexed 

 as they mature. His plant, collected in Martinique by Martin, if in existence will serve 

 as a type of his species. But he added to his description, citations from Plumier and 

 Dillen drawn evidently from the species with rigid erect leaves, which Gmelin later 



