Lycopodiace&T^ 



FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



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Monog. pt. 1. p. 88. pt. %. p. 41. L. Pichinchense, Hook. Ic. PL t. 85. L. heterophyllum, Hook, et 

 Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 113. L. diffusum, Spring, Monog., non Br. Prodr. 



Hab. Mountains of the Northern and Middle Islands, Banks and Solander, etc. 



In the 'Flora Antarctica' I have discussed at some length the variations of L. clavatum, of which I believe this 

 plant to be a southern state, distinguishable in most cases by the quite entire leaves, that have not a hair-like point. 

 It inhabits Lord Auckland's and Campbell's Island, the mountains of Tasmania and South America, and in the 

 South Sea Islands and the Cordillera is found passing into the L. clavatum of the north temperate hemisphere, a 

 cosmopolitan plant, to which M. Spring rightly refers nearly a dozen species of various authors. — Stems extensively 

 creeping, stout, woody, sending up strict, erect, fastigiately branched or panicled branches, 3-12 inches high. 

 Leaves imbricated, spreading, incurved or squarrose, linear-subulate, entire. Peduncles terminal, solitary or two 

 together, strict, erect, more or less leafy, the leaves often whorled. Spikes 1-2| inches long, erect, cylindric. Scales 

 peltate, trapezoid and toothed at the base, with long recurved points. Spores granulated on the surface.— Very 

 stunted alpine specimens have procumbent branches and subsecund ascending leaves. I have seen specimens with 

 short peduncles, approaching L. densum in general appearance, but the form of the recurved scales of the spike 

 distinguishes this at once. 



§ d. Leaves bifarious. 



9. Lycopodium scariosum, Porst.; caule basi repente vage ramoso, ramis subcomplanatis divaricatim 

 ranralosis, foliis aliis majoribus bifariis decurrentibus integerrimis falcato-lanceolatis acutis coriaceis opacis 

 margimbusve et apicibus scariosis aliis minoribus cauli appressis subulatis stipulasformibus, spicis termi- 

 nalibus longe v. brevissime pedunculatis subsexfariam imbricatis pedunculo folioso, squamis e basi ovata 

 acuminatis denticulatis erectis demum recurvis, apicibus ssepe scariosis, sporis laxe reticulatim areolatis, 

 areolis depressis. — Forst. Prodr. Fl. Antarct. p. 112. Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 966. Spring, Monog. p. 106. 

 L. deeurrens, Br. Prodr. t. 966. L. Jussieui, Desv. Fncycl. Bot. Hook. Ic. PL t. 185. Spring, I. c. 

 p. 108. L. reptans, Banks et Sol. MSS. L. Hamkii, Presl. L. Lessonianum, A. Rich. Flora ? 



Hab. Mountains of the Northern Island, Colenso ; more common in the Middle and Southern 

 Islands, on the ground, often in woods, Banks and Solander. 



Originally discovered by Banks and Solander in New Zealand, and since found in Tasmania (£. deeurrens, Br.), 

 Lord Auckland's Group, Chili, and throughout the Andes of South America, in New Granada, and the mountains of 

 Jamaica. Spring retains the L. Jussieui (which originated in American specimens) as a distinct species, founding 

 his characters on the erect stem, elongate peduncles, and some other equally variable characters. — Stems creeping, 

 stout, rooting, often 2 feet long, sending out flattened, flabellately-divided, compressed branches. Leaves of two 

 kinds ; the larger bifarious, deeurrent, falcate, ovate lanceolate, acute or acuminate, laterally flattened, very coria- 

 ceous ; smaller on the under side of the branches only, more numerous, subulate, appressed to the stem. Spikes 

 l-H inches long, cylindrical, solitary or geminate, on long or short terminal peduncles, which are often 8 inches 

 long, and covered with imbricate, subulate leaves. Scales somewhat sexfariously disposed, ovate, with rather broad 

 recurved points and toothed margins. 



10. Lycopodium volubile, Forst.; caule alte scandente volubili tenui ramoso, ramis compressis 

 subflabellatim ramulosis, foliis majoribus bifariis falcatis lanceolatis acuminatis, minoribus subulatis ap- 

 pressis stipuraeformibus, spicis in pedunculos nudos dichotomos subpaniculatim dispositis gracilibus pendulis, 

 squamis erectis 4-5-fariam imbricatis e basi late rotundata abrupte acuminatis, sporis granulatis. — Forst. 

 Prodr. Hook, et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 70. Spring, Monog. p. 105. L. spectabile, Blume, fid. Herb. Hort. 

 Acad. Lugd. Bat. [lib. Hook.) Spring, Monog. p. 109. L. D'Urvillei? A. Rich. Flor.,fid. Spring. 



Hab. Northern and Middle Islands, as far south as Banks' Peninsula, Banks and Solander, etc. Nat. 

 name, "Wae-wae koukou" (owl's foot), Col. 



