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bracts are blunt and as well as the pointed fruit-supporting bracts neither compressed 
nor prominently streaked; the latter are towards the base beset with hairlets. 
I have not been able to identify this species with any one described, and named it 
F.. oreoboloides. For want of ripe fruit the generic position cannot yet be fully 
affirmed, but some approach to Triodia seems also indicated, 
Equisetum debile; Roxburgh according to Vaucher in Mémoires de la Societé de 
physique et d’ histoire naturelle, Genéve, I, 387 (1822). 
Mount Knutsford. 
The specimens are devoid of fruit, but accord otherwise fully with some from 
Ceylon, available here. Indeed the species was recorded from New Guinea before, 
but is now shown to reach very high altitudes there, though in some parts of India 
it is even a coast-plant. 
Lycopodium clavatum ; Linné, species plantarum 1101 (1753). 
Highest regions of the Owen Stanley’s Ranges. 
Lycopodium Selago ; Linné, species plantarum 1102 (1753). 
Near the summits of the Owen Stanley’s Ranges and of Mount Musgrave. 
A laxely rampant form, verging towards L. varium. Brief notes on the 
variability of this species are also given in the ‘“‘ Vegetation of the Chatham Islands,” 
p. 62. 
Lycopodium scariosum ; G. Forster, florule insularum Australium prodromus 87 (1786). 
Mount Knutsford. 
The typic form. The collection contains from Mt. Knutsford also specimens 
(without fruit) of a plant, similar in aspect to L. scariosum, but the branches are not 
flattened ; it may possibly be referable to L. alpinum. 
Lycopodium volubile; G. Forster, florule insularum Australium prodromus 86 (1786). 
Mount Muserave. 
Recorded from New Guinea before. In these specimens the rows of minor 
leaf-like organs are much less developed than usual; fruit not seen from this place. 
Gleichenia dicarpa ; R. Brown prodromus floree Nove Hollandiz 161 (1810). 
Mt. Knutsford. 
There also the var. alpina. 
This fern, though of a tropical type, would endure the clime of Middle-Kurope 
and other regions in the cool temperate zone, as in the Australian Alps it fringes often 
the rivulets of valleys, which are covered annually during several montlis with snow. 
