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39. Lycopodium Gayanum Remy*; Gay, Hist. Chile Bot. 6: 

 545- 1853. (Type from Chile, Gay.). 



A single specimen in the Meissner (Columbia) herbarium from 

 Valdivia, Chile, no. 208 of " Bridges or Cuming?" represents this 

 species in our collections as described, and shows characters 

 warranting us in maintaining it. 



40. Lycopodium lindsaeaceum Spring, Flora 21 : 180. 1838. 

 (Type from Peru.) 



This species was united by Baker with the New Zealand L. 

 scariosum, which naturally has little to do with the new world rep- 

 resentatives of the group. The species is represented in the her- 

 barium of the New York Botanical Garden by a single specimen 

 collected by Rusby in Bolivia, and by several more recently 

 brought from the same country by Williams. 



41. Lycopodium Jussiaei Desv. Encyc. Bot. Suppl. 3: 543. 

 181 3. (Type from Peru.) 



We have specimens of this species collected by Spruce and 

 Sodiro in Ecuador and were inclined for a time to separate 

 Jamaica specimens collected by Purdie and by Jenman and more 

 recently by Underwood and by Maxon. Jamaica material shows 

 a marked differentiation in texture, the leaves being thinner, more 

 distant, acute rather than mucronate, and inequilateral, £ e., with 

 the midrib nearer the anterior leaf-margin. In Jamaica the species 

 is rare, growing at altitudes above 5000 feet." Baker (loc. at.) 

 reduced the species to a variety of L. scariosum of the Old World. 



4 2 - Lycopodium Holtoni sp. no v. 



Main stems creeping, sending up lateral shoots 25 cm. or 

 more tall, with foliage shoots ending in bifid peduncles ; lateral 

 (upper) leaves of the dorsivental ascending branches crowded and 

 imbricate, ascending, the lateral free margin revolute (so that the 

 leaf appears strongly twisted in the dry condition), the upper sur- 

 face arched, thick, coriaceous, cuspidate ; ascending shoots 3-8 

 mm. wide, varying in diameter throughout the length ; leaves of 

 the under three rows 4-5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide at the base, 

 awl-shaped, thin, scarious-margined and often slightly lacerate, 

 the apices scarious or hair- like ; strobiles 5-6 cm. long, 5 mm. 



* This species is usually referred to Remy and it is not likely that Gay would 

 name a species after himself, but we have failed to find in this volume any evidence 

 that Remy described this species. 



