102 LYCOPODIACE^. 



Stems leafless, branched, 3-angled. Cap- 

 sules 3-celled, lateral on the 

 branches, usually in the axils of 

 minute bifid bracts 4. Psilotum. 



Genus I.— PHYLLOGLOSSUM,* Kunze. (PI. IV. fig. 5.) 



A small stemless plant, with a rootstock bearing 2 ovoid tubers, 

 and a few fibrous roots from the crown. Leaves and peduncles 

 radical. Scape terminated by an ovoid spike of 3-gonous, imbricated 

 scales. Capsules solitary in the axils of the scales, 1- or 2-celled,. 

 2-valved, filled with minute powdery spores. 



1. P. drummondii, Kunze. 



Green and glabrous, 1-3 in. high. Leaves 6-10, linear, \-\ in. 

 long. Peduncle usually about twice as long ; scales broad, with an 

 erect beak, pedicelled at the base. 



Synonym. — Lycopodium sanguisorba, Spring. 



Distribution. — Australia and Tasmania. 



This curious little plant is very local in its occurrence, and is 

 readily overlooked. In the North Island, it occurs — usually in open 

 ground — from Auckland to the Bay of Islands ; and is said to occur- 

 in Canterbury district by Mr. Armstrong. 



Genus 11— LYCOPODIUM,! i. {Club-Mosses.) (Pl.IV.fig. 6.) 



Stems creeping, prostrate or erect. Leaves small, in 2 or 4 rows,, 

 or imbricating all round the stem. Capsules l-ceUed, 2-valved, 

 reniform, sessile in the axils of the upper leaves, or in the scales of" 

 terminal or lateral spikes. Spores minute and powdery. 



The following key to the New Zealand species is chiefly adapted 

 from Hooker's " Handbook to the N.Z. Flora " : — 



I. — Leaves imbricating round the stem, usually ^-J in. long- 

 Capsules in the axils of the upper leaves, or in ilie scales of sessile,, 

 terminal, tetragonal spikes. 



Stems 3-6 in. long, erect, growing in 

 swamps. Leaves lanceolate, dark- 

 green. Capsules axillary in the 

 upper leaves 1. L. selago. 



Stems 6-18 in. long, ascending or pendu- 

 lous from trees, &c. Leaves linear- 

 lanceolate. Spikes 1-3 in. long ; 

 bracts variable, usually much longer 

 than the capsules 2. L. varium. 



* Gr., Pliyllon, a leaf ; glossa, the tongue ; from the shape of the leaves.^ 

 t Gr., Lykos, a wolf ; pons, a foot ; from some imaginary resemblance. 



