178 IS LYCOPODIUM COMPLANATUM A BRITISH PLANT? 
so than even in KR, lepidotum, or in any other species with which I 
am acquainted. 
to be ascended, the plan and subsidies for this enterprise having 
emanated from the Victorian branch of the Royal Geographic 
Society of Australia. 
(To be continued.) 
IS LYCOPODIUM COMPLANATUM A BRITISH PLANT? 
By Henry anp James Groves. 
In 1842, Spring, in Monographie de la famille de Lycopodiacées, 
included among the localities for L. complanatum * Scotia,” but we 
have no evidence as to the specimens on which the record is based. 
In 1866, a Lycopodium was collected by Mr. J. Lloyd at Bramshot, 
his plant as L. complanatum, and states that ‘apparently Prof. 
Babington would refer the Bramshot plant to L. alpinwn (Journ. 
Bot. 1882, 822),”” whereas as a matter of fact Mr. Lloyd maintained 
that his plant was L. alpinum, and it was Babington who thought 
Mr. F. A. Lees recorded the Gloucestershire plant as L. alpinum, 
emphatically protesting against its being considered L. complanatum, 
fr 
fertile) true L. complanatum var. anceps Wa -, and still more 
probably the New Forest plant is L. complanatum var. Chamacy- 
rissus, but, until gathered in fructification, we cannot be sure that 
itish. 
the 8th edition of Babington’s Manual, issued in 1883, L. com- 
planatum is described, and the following localities cited :_-*« Hants, 
Glouc., Worc., Ross, Skye.” In Journ. Bot. 1888, p. 26, Mr. G. C. 
recorded “ L.. complanatum L., ‘ Hook. fil.’ [whatever that may 
mean]. Cairngorms, *94, #96, *105.” 
