1924 CLIV. LYCOPODIACE^. [Lycopodium . 



usually several and often forked, 2 or 3 to even 6 or more in- long. Bracts 

 imbricate in 4 rows, usually broad and scarcely exceeding the spore-cases, 

 but in some specimens with a lanceolate point twice as long. 



Hab.: Boekingham Bay, Dallachy ; Daintree River, Fitzalan. A common tropical epiphyte. 

 Widely spread over tropical Africa and Asia. 



3. Ii. phlegmarioides, (like phlegmaria), Gaudich. Freyc. Voy. i. 23. 

 Epiphyte. Stems pendulous, 1^ to 3ft. long, dichotomously forked. Leaves 

 ovate, ascending, obtuse or subacute, 3 to 5 lines long, firm in texture, bright-green, 

 rigid, entire; midrib distinct, arranged in 3 or 4 rovrs. Spikes very slender forked 

 3 to Gin. long ; bracts dense, broad-ovate, slightly exceeding the sporangia. 



This species has the tassel-like inflorescence of L. phlegmaria. to which it should probably 

 be placed as a variety, for its only distinction seems to be in the direction taken by the stem, 

 leaves, which, instead of being soatterei as in L. phlegmaria, form-4 even wings to the stem. — 

 L. tetrapterygium, Bail, in Proc. Roy. Soc. Ql. i. 



Hab.: On trees. Johnstone and other tropical rivers. 



4. !■. Clarae (after Miss Clara Cowley), Bail. Bot. Hull. vii. " Goorigen," 

 Barron River, Cowley. Stems pendulous from rocks or trunks of trees, from 1^ to 

 3^ft. long, rarely forked, from 1 to l|-in. diameter including the leaves, which jare 

 so dense as to hide the stem. Leaves lanceolate, muoli narrowed towards the 

 apex, from f to over lin. long, of a somewhat membranous texture, and of a rich 

 glaucous green, the midrib obscure, margins entire. Sporangia in the axils of 

 unaltered leaves, numerous and large. 



Hab.: Upper Freshwater Creek, Miss Clara Cowley. 



5. I,. Srummondii (after James Dnimmond), Spring, Monogr. Lycop. 

 ii. 34; Baker's Mon. 19. Stems leafy but creeping and rooting like rhizomes, 

 with very short or scarcely any ascending barren branches. Leaves crowied, 

 narrow lanceolate, acuminate, not above 2 lines long, two rows often 

 rather longer and more spreading than the other two. Fertile branches 

 (often called peduncles) erect, 1 to 6in. high including the spike, with 

 small loosely erect leaves, the spike or fruiting part terminal or sometimes 

 below the end. Bracts small, subulate-acuminate and spreading from a broad 

 base, often but not always minutely serrulate-ciliate. — Hook, f . Fl. Tasm-: ii. 170 ; 

 F. V. M. Fragm. v. iii. ; L. caro! inianum, Linn. Benth. Fl. Austr. vii. 675. 



Hab.: Islands of Moreton Bay. 



The species extends over North and South America, tropical and southern Africa, Ceylon and 

 New Zealand. ' ti; ' .J" 



6. !•. laterale (lateral), R. Br. Prod. 165; Benth. Fl. Austr. vii. 675. 

 Stems leafy from the base, prostrate decumbent or ascending, slightly branched, 

 from a few inches to 2 feet long. Leaves crowded all round, lanceolate-subulate, 

 2 to 3 lines long. Spikes few, lateral and sessile, mostly about |in. long. 

 Bracts small, from a very broad base shortly acuminate, usually brown-coloured. 

 — Spring, Monogr. Lycop. i. 82, ii. 38; Labill. Sert. Austr. Caled. t. 15; Sieb. 

 Syn. Filici n. 84. ,r 



Hab.: Rockingham Bay, . Dallachy; Moreton Island^ F. v. Mineller. 

 Also in New Caledonia and New Zealand. 



7. Ii. cernuum (drooping), Linn. ; Spring, Monoffi: Lycop. i. 79, ii. 37 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Austr. vii. 676. Stems hard, rising to 2ft. or when very luxuriant 

 to 5 or 6ft. in height, with numerous spreading flexuose repeatedly forked 

 branches. Leaves spreading all round the stem, fine, subulate, incurved, i to 2 

 lines long. Spikes sessile above the last leaves, nodding, 2 to 3 lines long. 

 Bracts ovate-lanceolate, ciliate, imbricate in 8 rows, longer than the spore-cases. 



Hab.: Common all along the coast. 



Common throughout the tropics in the New as well as the Old World. 



