Underwood and Lloyd : Lycopodium 1 1 1 



17. Lycopodium funiforme Chamisso ; Spring, Monog. Lycop. 

 1 : 50. 1842. 



The name was given by Chamisso to a plant in herb. Bory 

 which was marked " California "; to this Spring in publishing the 

 description added "Guadeloupe, LHirwinier" which should be 

 regarded as the type locality. The plant is a well known Antil- 

 lean species and the " California ? " was evidently a mistake as the 

 plant is apparently endemic in the West Indies. 



Range: Cuba {Wright p#j, Pollard & Palmer 168, Under- 

 wood & Earle 658, iojj), Porto Rico {Heller 108/, Percy Wilson 

 102), Guiana {Jenman). 



The living plant is well named, as the resemblance to cordage 

 is very striking. 



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18. Lycopodium dichotomum Jacq. Hort. Bot. Vinci. 3: 26. //. 

 45- l 77&' (Type from Martinique.) 



Range: Cuba {Wright 944), Hispaniola {Nash 686), Jamaica 

 {Clnte 64), Dominica {Lloyd 306, 798, 809, 8ig\ St. Kitts {Brit- 

 ton & Cozvell 3 04), Grenada {Sherring), Guadeloupe {Dr. Madi- 

 ana), Martinique, St. Vincent {Smith 735), Mexico {Schaffner 3, 

 Pringle 3976), Guiana {Jenman). 



There is some degree of variation present in this species. We 

 were at first inclined to separate the St. Kitts plant as distinct and 

 with it would go the scrap from Guadeloupe here cited from the 

 Torrey herbarium. As noted above, Mr. Jenman confused the 

 plant which we have described as L. montanum with this species, 

 and then in his herbarium referred the Grenada plants really 

 belonging here to a new name, L. grenadense Jenm. It is prob- 

 ably more logical to consider all the forms as coming under a 

 single species. 



1 9- Lycopodium Wilsonii sp. no v. 



A small epiphyte with divergent forking branches and slender 

 leaves. Stems 8-15 cm. long, about 2 mm. thick, with about 

 three forks, the branches divergent; leaves linear, 1.5— 1.8 cm. 

 long by 0.6 mm. wide, very gradually tapering from the base to 

 the acuminate apex, symmetrically or slightly curved ; sporo- 

 phyls similar to the leaves, but smaller, 1 cm. long by 0.4 mm. 

 wide; sporangia round-reniform, 1.5 mm. wide by 1.3 mm. deep, 

 exceeding the sporophyls in width. 



