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10. Lycopodium Pringlei sp. nov. 



Epiphytic, pendulous, of slender open habit; stems 40 cm. or 

 more long, about five times dichotomous, appearing cord-like from 

 the appressed leaves; leaves subulate, 2.5-3 mm - l° n g> 0.6 mm. 

 wide, about 6-ranked ; strobiles more or less interrupted, the shoots 

 becoming variable in thickness because of the large crowded spo- 

 rangia ; sporophyls triangular, entire, 1.3 mm. long or less, 0.8 

 mm. wide at base, exceeding the sporangia only by their short 

 apices, appressed except when distended by the ripened sporangia ; 

 sporangia nearly circular, 0.8 mm. wide by 0.6 mm. deep, some- 

 times slightly protruding beyond the margins of the sporophyls. 



Mexico : Hanging from oaks, Sierra de Clavellinas, 9000 ft., 

 Oaxaca, Pr ingle 4994. (type) ; Orizaba, Midler 361. A plant col- 

 lected at Morelos, Rose 4416, is either this or very closely allied. 



The plant was distributed by Pringle as L. verticillatum, but 

 does not show close relationship to any of the West Indian plants 

 bearing that name or that have been referred to that species. It 

 is a much smaller-stemmed plant than L. nit ens, and has 6-ranked 

 instead of 4-ranked leaves and sporophyls as in that species. 



11. Lycopodium taxifolium Sw. Nov. Gen. et Sp. PI. 138. 



1788. — Flor. Ind. Occ. 3: 1573. 1806. (Type from Ja- 

 maica ; in the latter work Swartz also says " etiam in insula 



Helena.") 



verv 



often resulting in the appearance of much more slender stems, we 



ipodium passerino 



the West Indies the 

 1 : 41. 1815), the 



type of which was from Peru, and quite likely represents a plant 

 widely different from the West Indian things that in recent years 

 have been referred to it. 



Range: Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, Jamaica, Dominica, 



St. Vincent, Grenada, Mexico, Colombia. 



12. Lycopodium pithyoides Schlecht. & Chamisso, Linnaea 5: 

 623. 1830. (Type from Jalapa, Mexico, Schiede & Deppe.) 

 Mexico : Santa Maria, Schaffner ; Orizaba, Miiller 691. 

 Guatemala : Seler 2329. 

 Cuba : Santiago, Hamilton 247. 

 This characteristic species, long neglected or overlooked at 



Kew, is so clearly defined that one wonders at the oversight. 



