Lycopodium.] LYCOPODIACEAE, 645 
7. L. phlegmaria, LZ. — Spring, |. c. I, 63, II, 28. — Var. Man 
Stem slender, flexuose, less than 1“ thick, saat Leaves ask 
8-ranked in the last Seach eet 4—6 “ X 11/2", contracting at the 
ase but sessile, rather obtuse, entire, thin. eo filiform, 5—6/ long, 
1/2 in thickness, about 4 times forking, the bracts in 4, 3, or 2 ranks, 
smaller, distant nt empty in the lower divisions, ovate, acute a faintly 
carinate, little longer than the capsules. — L. phlegmaria? Mann, Enu 
no. 656 (in herb. Cornell Univ.). 
mountain above Maalaea bay, Maui. Only collected by Mann. se of the 
On the 
most slender forms of the species. Leaves and bracts differ somewhat from the type, 
the former not Sn vate and the latter being vant as in L. pachystachyon and 
exceeding slightly ie San cenit The leaves are also thinner and more A sti than in 
typical L. phlegmari 
8. L. cernuum, ZL. — S, ed l. c. I, 79; Il, 37. — Stem erect, 
stiff, terete, 2—5 ft. hi excurrent to the apex, with numerous 
h 
spreading flexuose repeatedly mis branches, each branchlet at last 
10” 
ength. av ate, 
8 ranks, pads distant, decurrent with 2 lateral lines, erect and appressed 
in the lower portion, those of the branches crowded, patent, incurved or 
uncinate. Bracts in 8 ranks, appressed, ovate, 1“ long, contracting below, 
denticulate, cuspidate, much longer than the capsules; these minute, 
globular, without a basal incisure. Spores smooth. — L. curvatum, Gaud. 
es and on the sf gee of forests, forming dense thickets in the 
« Waw: reese oot) of the n saga ag eo 
t 
oe is widely spread over the csr contre of nearly the whole ie Tt oce 
n the Islands, as elsewhere, een oi leaves thick and stiff (L. 
d.). 
under tw B2 
ton, Bl.), and capillaceum , cage oe. filiform (L. capillaceum, Will 
9. L. venustulum, Gaud. Bot. Voy. Frey. p. 285, tab. 22. — Stem trailing 
2—2” thick, several feet in length, the ascending 
branches of the same shape 
s running 
and sparsely rooting, 1'/ 
divisions 4—8’ high, repeatedly forking into 
and size as the stem, one or several of the leading division 
out into an exserted distantly foliose spike-bearing — of 1—4’ in. 
length. Leaves of stem and branches subulate, acerose, 2—3” long, the 
former distant and irregular in 9—7 ranks, straight, appressed, the latter 
crowded, patent, itn incurved, mostly ending in a soft whitish soon 
evanescent hair. es of the peduncles few, in irregular whorls, straight, 
appressed, 6—3” nie including the hair-like point. Spikes 3—6 
on a peduncle, dichotomously or racemosely arranged, l/2—2‘ long, 
rather thick. Bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate, patent or recurved, with 
ciliate or jagged margins, terminating in a hair-like appendage, thin and 
pale, darker in the middle. Sporangia less than half the length of the 
bracts, stipitate, roundish, cordate. Spores pale yellow, reticulate, muricate. 
