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grow weedy and rank. They should be planted toward the end of the rains (Octo- 

 ber) so as to be well established when the dry season sets in. 

 References: 



lycopersicon lycopersicum (L. ) Karst. Deutsch. Fl. 966. 1880-83. 



Solanum lycopersicum L. Sp. PI. 1 : 185. 1753. 



Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8. 1768. 



liycopersicum esculentum. Same as Lycopersicon lycopersicum,. 

 liycopodium, cernuum. Savanna lycopodium. Plate v. 



Family Lycopodiaceae. 



Local names. Amigos, Gauay (Philippines); Wawae iole (Hawaii); Azufre 

 vegetal (Cuba). 

 A lycopodium growing on the ground, especially common on the treeless high- 

 lands of Guam called "sabanas." Stem erect, hard, stiff, terete, about 60 cm. high 

 or more, with numerous spreading, flexuose, repeatedly forking branches, each branch- 

 let at last terminating in a sessile, cylindrical, mostly nodding spike; leaves awl- 

 shaped, 2 to 4 mm. long, those of the stem irregular in 8 ranks, erect and appressed 

 in the lower portion, those of the branches crowded, incurved; bracts in 8 ranks, 

 appressed, ovate, 2 mm. Idng, contracting below, denticulate, cuspidate, much longer 

 than the capsules; capsules minute, globular, without a basal incisure; spores smooth. 

 Common throughout the Tropics, often associated with Qleicherda dichotoma. Its 

 Hawaiian name signifies "rat's-foot." It was first collected in Guam by Haenke. 

 The form occurring in Guam is called by Baker variety marianum. 

 References: 

 Lycopodium cernuum L. Sp. PI. 2: 1103. 1753. 



Lycopodiuiu marianum Willd. Same as Lycopodium cernuum. 

 Lycopodium mirabile Willd. Same as Lycopodium pUegmaria. 

 Lycopodium, pendant. See Lycopodium, phlegmaria. 



Lycopodium phlegmaria. Pendant lycopodium. Plate lvii. 



Local names. — Cordon de San Francisco (Spanish). 



A Lycopodium usually growing on the trunks and branches of trees, in long, pen- 

 dulous tufts. Leaves mostly lanceolate, spreading, 6 mm. or more long, sometimes 

 elliptical or oblong and obtuse; spikes slender, at the ends of the branches, usually 

 several, often forked several times; bracts imbricated, usually in 4 rows, broad, 

 scarcely exceeding the capsules in common forms, but sometimes pointed and longer. 



Very common in the forests of Guam, associated with Nephrolepis acuta, Davallia 

 solida, Polypodium phymatodes, Asplenium nidus, and other epiphytal ferns. Gaudi- 

 chaud states that the natives considered it a symbol of fecundity, but I could find 

 no evidence that this idea prevails at the present day. 



In referring to the specimen obtained by him in Guam, Gaudichaud says: 



I owe this plant to the kindness so often put to proof of Don Luis de Torres, the 

 most estimable man of the Marianne Islands, not only through his birth, his dis- 

 tinguished rank in this country, but also on account of his intellect, his education, 

 and the rare philanthropic virtues which characterize him. This excellent old gen- 

 tleman broke off the fragment which I possess from an enormous branch which he 

 carefully preserved at the head of his bed, near his holy-water font. 



The species is very widely spread throughout the islands of the Pacific and the 

 East Indies. 



References: 

 Lycopodium phlegmaria 1j. Sp. PI. 2:1100.1753. 



Lycopodium, savanna. See Lycopodium cernuum. 



Lygodium micropbyUum R. Br. Same as Lygodium scandens microphyllum. 



