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8. S. Preisstana Spring Mon. ii. 61; Lycopodium gracillimum 
Kunze Farnn. tab, 100, fig. 2; L. musciforme F. M.—Stems tufted, 
very slender, square, stramineous, erect, 1-2 in. long ineluding 
the spike, usually simple. Leaves uniform, lax, spreading, 
decussate, lanceolate, about } lin. long, not ciliated, thin but 
‘moderately firm in texture, acute, with a distinct midrib. Spikes 
m., reaching down nearly to the base of stems ; 
bracts ovate or ovate- cs: ascending, Sbriau ted acutely 
keeled. 
Hab. West Australia, Victoria, and Tasmania, in damp ground. 
p 
Leavy s lax, agp aioe ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 4-1 lin. long, 
a at in but in texture, spreading or rather ascending, 
entire. Spikes Sanaa, sessile at the end of the branches, 
3-1 in. long, 14-2 lin. diam.; bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 
Hab. East Australia, frequent from Queensland to Victoria 
and Rr remnnse in swamps. 
8. pumiza Spring Mon. ii. 60; Lycopodium pumilum Schlecht. 
pak 6, ‘t as L. pygmeum Kaulf. ; Kunze Farnn. t. 100, fig. 1; 
L. bryoides Kaul —Stems tufted, very slender, stramineous, erect 
or decumbent, if the former not more than 2-3 in. long, simple or 
distantly pinnate, with short simple ascending bran ae Leaves 
very lax, spreading, ovate or lanceolate, acute, 4-1 ln 
but not serra keeled. 
Hab. Cape Colony, in shady and damp places. L. pygm 
Kaulf. is a form with short tufted erect stems and smaller narr Giee 
leaves; L. bryoides Kaulf. a form with longer trailing stems and 
broader larger he acute leaves. 
§. rupestris Spring in Fl. Bras. i. 118; ipsa decrees 
Linn.; Schk. Krypt. t. 165; Raddi Fil. Bras. t. 8, 
L. bryopteris Wall., non Linn.; L. Dreget Presl.—Dill. Muse. t. 68, 
fig. 11.—Stems densely tufted, decumbent or ascendin 
compound es. Leaves dense, multifarious, uniform, ascend- 
ing, densely rae ated, linear or linear-lanceolate, 3-1 lin. long, 
with a distin ct transparent awn, pale green, convex and sulcate on 
the back, rigid in texture, strongly ciliated. Spikes square, 
sessile, 4-1 in. long, } lin. diam.; bracts rigid, ovate-lanceolate, 
acute, much imbricated, canal kee led. 
North and south temperate zone of both the Old and 
New Worlds; also on ine Andes, Himalayas, and mountains of 
Brazil and Ceylon. The most widely spread species of the genus, 
but not ‘enciont in Europe. Milde Fil. Eur. 262, defines ten 
varieties. iS, iortipila A, Br., from the mountains of South 
