Lycopodiacece?\ 



FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



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Nat. Ord. XCVI. LYCOPODIACEiE, DC. 



Gen. I. PHYLLOGLOSSUM, Kunze. 



Capsula in spicam bracteatam pedunculatam disposite, axillis bractearum sessiles, reniformes, 2-locu- 

 lares, 2-valva3, rima verticali transverse dehiscentes, sporis minutissiniis trigonis fexctse.— Folia omnia radi- 

 calia, pcmca lineari-subulata, teretia. Eadix tuberosa ; tuberibus didymis, Orcbideis referentibus. 



A very remarkable plant, discovered almost contemporaneously by M. Priess at Swan Biver, Mr. Gimn in 

 Tasmania, and by myself in New Zealand, where it has since been gathered by various collectors.— Whole plant 

 quite glabrous, rather fleshy, 1-3 inches kjgfc— Boot of two ovoid tubers, quite like that of an OrcMs, with long 

 simple fibres from the crown. Leaves few, terete, subulate, grass-green, erect, rising from the tubers of the present 

 year. Stem, scape or peduncle, solitary, erect, terete, rising from among the leaves, bearing a small terete spike of 

 imbricating trigonous pedicelled scales. Capsules, like those of Lycopodium, placed in the axils of the scales. (Name 

 from <j>v\\ov, a leaf, and yXmrtra, a tongue.) 



1. Phylloglossum Drummondii, Kunze in Sot. Zeit.p. 724. cum Ic. xylog. Hoolc. Ic. Plant, t. 908. 

 Lycopodium Sanguisorba, Spring, Monog. Lycop.pt. Z.p. 36. 



Hab. Northern Island; Bay of Islands and Auckland, Sinclair, Colenso, etc. 



Gen. II. TMESIPTERIS, Bemh. 



Capsula ad axillam folii furcati sessiles, oblongse, coriaceae, bilobas, lobis divaricatis subacutis, bivalves, 

 rima verticali dehiscentes. Sports minutissimse, oblongae, curvse.— Frons pendula, coriacea, foliosa. Stipes 

 angulatus. Polia alterna, verticalia, fertilia biloba {sen didyma), plana, costata, enervia, obtusa, mucro- 

 nata, basi decurrentia. 



A remarkable genus, containing only one species, which inhabits New Ireland, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, 

 Australia, Tasmania, the Pacific Islands, and California, often in the former countries growing epiphytically on Tree- 

 ferns.— Fronds leafy, pendulous, flaccid, elongated, simple or dichotomously branched, 6 inches to 2 feet long. Stipes 

 angled. Leaves vertical, decurrent, oblong or ensiform, sessile by a broad base, acuminate, blunt or truncate and 

 refuse, with an exserted costa, opaque, coriaceous, i-1 inch long. Fertile pinnm didymous, stipitate. Capsule 

 large, oblong, two-lobed, the lobes divaricating, splitting into two valves through both lobes, placed at the forking of 

 a pinnule. Spores very minute, oblong, curved.— Two species have been made of this plant, one for the truncate- 

 leaved, and the other for the acuminate-leaved, but both forms may be found on one specimen. (Name from t M <t K , 

 a notch, and irrepts, a fern; from the split pinnules.) 



1. Tmesipteris Forsteri, Midi. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Norf. A. Cunn. Prodr. Monog. Lycopod. p. 265. 

 T.Tannensis, Lab. Fl. Nov. Holl. v. 2. p. 105. t. 252. Bemh. in, Schrad. Joum. IWl.p. 131. t. 2.f. 5. 

 Psilotum truncatum, Br. Prodr. T. Billardieri, Spring, Monog. I. c. 



Hab. Throughout the Islands, abundant. 



Gen. III. LYCOPODIUM, L. 



Capsula sessiles, axiilares, uniloculars : aliae reniformes, rima longitudinali dehiscentes, bivalves, sporis 

 minutissimis trigonis linea tricruri notatis repletaj; arise 2-3-loba3, 2-3-valves, corpusculis 1-6 iarcte. 

 Frondes coriacea, plerumque foliosse, erects, volubiles v. penduhe.— Capsulse in spicam imbricatam disposita 

 v.foliis axiilares. 



