LycojJodiaceaT^ 



FLORA OE NEW ZEALAND. 



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of capsules, with short, ovate, keeled, blunt, imbricating scales: these scales however often become foliaceous (in 

 T'"*"^ Bl '°' Wh6n the S P icate Character is lost ' TOu» the leaves become more subulate and smaller the 

 plant appears to pass into L. Selago. When it inhabits warmer latitudes it grows dependent from trees, is much 

 branched, more slender and flaccid, and becomes L. Billardieri. I cannot distinguish this species from the L 

 gmdioides of South Africa and the Mauritius, by any character of importance. 



8. Lycopodium Billardieri, Spring; caule elongate pendulo ramoso, foliis sparsis decurrentibus 

 hgulate acute, spicis gracilibus tetragonis dichotome ramosis, capsulis rarius in apices ramulorum foliosis 

 disposxte.-^ ,Monog P 56. L. flagellaria, A. Bid, Mar., non Bar, (fid. Spring). A. Cunn. Prodr. 

 L. laxum, Presl (Jul Hook. Bot. Misc. v. 8. p. 105). 



Hab. Northern and Middle Islands, abundant, as far south as Otago, pendulous from trees. 



a^Jt^Tlrf^ 7"" ^ a Plmt f0md " NW Gdnea (by Lab «re), and described and 



S t (1 l7''l V T r S redUC6S t0 ^ ° arhlatUm > ^^ Md mak6S ° f the *" « • — 



species (LMlardy. I am not aoquamted with Bory , g ^ cannot gu 



vanety of the preceding, and of Z, gnidioides of South Africa, Z. mrivm of Otaheite (Menzies in Hook. Herb nd 

 L. myrUfoUurn Men,, of Owhyhee, both which latter have however been referred to L. sulcinervium by M. Spring 

 -Boots tufted. Stems pendulous, very long (2-4 feet), slender, rigid, cylindric, grooved, flexuous, with flaccid 

 branches. Leaves rather scattered below, more approximate above, decurrent, suberect, linear or ligulate, acute or 

 blunt nerve ess or the lower with a strong costa and longitudinal depression on either side of it, lower I upper x 

 nch long; the latter often subulate, keeled, erect, appressed, and closely imbricate. **, i-4 inches long, Lple 



he a °rrm \ ^T *"" ^ °^' C °" S ' ^ *»* ***«* ^lf concealing 



n kes hT le f k "1" ^ " "" "^ * ^ *"" at the eM ° f the "^ at «*« *» ^ 

 spikes have leaf-like scales: young specimens have patent, more flaccid leaves, with thickened margins.-I have 



gathered all states of this plant growing together. The figure of L. varium (in Hook. Ic. Eil. 1. 112) is taken from 



a specimen of tins gathered in Otaheite, according to Henries' ticket, but I suspect some mistake about the habitat ; 



it is identical with New Zealand specimens of L. n 



i imbricated all round the stem. Spikes cylindrical, sessile. 

 4 Lycopodium denn im , Lab.; caule erecto superne fastigiatim ramosissimo, foliis sex-multi-fariam 

 mbneate erecris et appressis v. patulis et squarrosis subulato-lanceolatis integris longe acuminatis pili 

 fensve, spicls terminals solitariis sessilibus ramulis latioribus oblongo-cylieis fquaZ ^s 

 scanosxs tnangulan-ovaris, sporis hispidis.-^. M, flfc. Roll V . Z. P , 104. , 251./. 1. Br Prdr A 

 Cunn. Prodr. Spring, Monog. p. 87. -trrom. yi. 



H.B. Throughout the Northern Island, abundant on dry fanjands; Chatham Island, Diefevl.c* 

 A very handsome plant, which, though v.ri.bie m £„&,,,, cannot be confounded with „, „,hcr ■ it is found 



LriaS t^/r™' r° ik u ™ d - -" n » *—-«-. .— . -».», .L :, : , 

 .if ,t:1"' p ; i ; i T-zx^'" 1 h ™r J' r le * rar% •**** - a -• *-* <°" red 



, t , ., , r 8 ° J lmbllcated ' oppressed, subulate, acuminate, rarely hair-pointed leaves ■ the 



character of the branches depends on the form and disposition of the leaves, which I sometimes short er 

 closely appressed sexfanously imbricated, when the branches are slender; when the leaves are spreading a'nd !n 

 curved, the branches appear stouter. Spikes cylindrical i s ;,-,„!, i„„ •, ., , „ b 



, , . , J cylindrical, J_| mch long, sessile, blunt, squarrose from the snreadino- 



scanous, yellow scales, which are peltate, triano-ular serrulate nr Pma p ti,. i.- ■, • , ^ mmm S> 



projections. angular, serrulate or eiose. The spores are hispid, with short, blunt 



5. Lycopodium laterale, Br.; caulibus repentibus, ramis ascendenribus erectisve et elon^tis fo 

 hosts sxmphcibus v. dmsis, foliis undique imbrieatis squarroso-patentibus mcurvis anguste subulate n" 

 tegns^spieis brevibus lateralibus eylmdraceis, squamis subquadrifanam imbricate xZl^Ll 



