644 LYCOPODIACEAE, [ Lycopodium, 
cette carinate, mucronate, entire, always longer than the sporangia, 
w are small, orbicular-cordate with a narrow ba sal slit. Spores 
Ww si smooth. — Spring, Monogr. Lycop. I, 73, I, 32. — Brack. |. c. p. 323. 
— Mann, Enum. no. 652. — L. verticillatum, var. 8, ne Seat 176; 
I, 47, as 26 the Hawaiian Islds. and Carruthers, in Fl. Vit 
ees, not frequent. — The species, not found elsewhere yet, is net related to 
L. verticillatum, L., which America Africa with adjacent 
The transition from subulate ‘to ovate leaves is quite gradual “i well marked, 
so that in old plants the ultimate divisions often appear like catkins. In L. verticillatum 
the saw of the first and last divisions are conformous and nearly equal in len, gth. 
5. L. nutans, Brack. 1. c. p. 327. — Stem stout and stiff, 10—16‘ long, 
2—3” thick at the base, erect or pendulous, simple, or once or twice 
forking at acute angles in the upper portion, leafy from the base, passing 
rather abruptly into a thick terminal spike which is 3—5‘ long and simple 
or once or twice forked. Leaves crowded, in 6 ranks, flat, linear-lan- 
ceolate, 6—10"  1—1!/2", broadly sessile, acute, entire, stiff coriaceous, 
with faint rib, horizontally patent, reflected below, suberect above, passing 
gradually but quickly into the lanceolate bracts, which are not ampliate 
at the base, and from 3—4” in length at the base of the spike decrease 
to 1!/2—1“ at its apex. Sporangia several times shorter than their bracts, 
suborbicular, with a deep open sinus. — The spikes are 3—4” thick at 
the base and taper toward the apex. 
On trees, not common. — Not known from elsewhere, but nearly allied to L. squar- 
rosum, Forst., a species common to Polynesia and Malaysia. et. this latter there is hardly 
any difference in length between = and bracts, and the sterile eno gradu- 
ally into the fertile ones, whic also much longer pee more divided than 
species. Besides, in L. nutans bis ave: are larger and stiffer. 
6. ee ees Spring, Monogr. Lycop. I, 66. — Stem stiff, erect 
or pendulous, 1—2 ft. long, 2—3"’ thick, once to three times forking at 
open angles, leafy throughout, the fruiting portion in terminal spikes. 
Leaves in 6—4 ranks, lanceolate, 6—12" < 21/2—3", very acute, entire, 
contracted at the base but not petiolate, stiff coriaceous, with prominent 
rib, oremecceest patent, suberect above, decurrent with two marginal lines. 
Spikes 1—1'/2’ thick, 2—10’ long, twice to four times forking. Bracts 
broadly ovate, ey subcarinate, 1—1/2", as long as the sporangia or 
longer. Sporangia subglobose, eed a sei: and close sinus. Saige pale 
yellow. — Gaud. Bot. Bon. tab. — Brack. 1. ¢. p. — Mann, 
Enum. no. 654. 
8 var. phyllanthum. — Stem weaker. Bracts longer than the spore-cases, 
ovate-lanceolate, acute, the upper and sometimes also the middle ones 
coming foliaceous and sterile. — L. phyllanthum, Hook. & Arn. Bot 
Beech. p. 102. — Sprin eh f ‘ {+ 
_ On trees, rather common. Th from the Hawaiian Islds., but stands 
near the widely spread L. - phlegmaria, L. 
