1926 CLIV., LYGOjPODIACEiE. [Selagindla. , 



3. S. fiabellata (fan-like), Spring, Monogr. Lycop.ii. 174 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 vii. 678. Rhizome, creeping and rooting, to a great extent, enaitting prect leafy 

 stems, simple for 2 to 4in., then expanding into a broadly ovate form, 6 to lOin. 

 long and sometimes nearly as lyide, densely branched. Leaves in 4 rows, the 

 2 outer rows disfciohously spreading, nearly vertical, falcate, 1 to 1 J line long, 

 usually dark green on the upper side, pale and shining , underneath j,n the dried 

 state, inner rows not half so long, semioordate, fine pointed, converging over the 

 rhachis. Spikes 8 to 9 lines long, slender. Bracts keeled, fine-pointed, imlsricate 

 in 4 rows. — Lycopodium flabellatum, Linn. 



Hab.: Bookingham Bay, Dallachy ; Daintree Eiver, Fitzalan; on the margins of most of the 

 Northern creeks. 



Also in the Malayan Archipelago to South China and in tropical America. The species 

 probably includes S. argentea. Spring, and some others. 



4. S. australiensis (of Australia), Baker Journ. Bot. 1868. The stems 

 of this plant extend some distance, are strongs wiry, and farrowed ; the leaves 

 distant, spreading, and rigid on the main stem, but narrower and clbser together 

 on the ascending branches, all deep-green. Spikes terminal, about 8 lines long. 



Hab.: Logan and Nerang Greek scrubs. 



5. S. brisbanensis (of Brisbane), Bail. 1st Suppl. Syn. Ql. Fl. 62. This is 

 an extremely delicate plant, its thread-like stems rambling to some distance ; 

 foliage not very dense, the whole plant at times having a somewhat bronze 

 appearance. Leaves rather distant and of delicate texture. Spikes 8 to 6 lines 

 long. 



Hab.: Brisbane Biver scrubs. 



The spikes of this and S. australiensis are never so numerous and prominent as in S. 

 Bakeriana, Bail. 



6. S. Bakeriana (after J. G. Baker), Bail. 1st Suppl. Syn. Ql. Fl. 62. 

 Stems creeping and rooting, but sending up from the upper edge erect, dichoto- 

 mously branched, short branches, the extremity' of each branchlet terminated by 

 a long, narrow, erect spike. Larger leaves in 2 rows, distichously spreading, 

 lanceolate, acute or obtuse, about 1 line long, the inner ones somewhat falcate, 

 the lower part appressed, the upper part spreading, all sharply keeled, margins 

 serrate. Spikes terminal, very numerous, 1 to, Sin. long and scarcely 1 line in 

 diameter. Bracts acuminate, keeled, and closely imbricate in 4 rows, the „tips 

 scarcely spreading. — S. leptostachya. Bail., Proc. Koy. Soc. Ql. i. 



Ilab.: Johnstone Eiver and other tropical localities. 



This is one of the most beautiful of the genus. It forms very dense masses of dark-green 

 foliage, almost every growth terminating in a long slender spike of fructification. 



7. S. proniflora (flowers prone),' Baker in Journ. Bot. 1885, 156. Stems 

 creeping, pinnately branched, leafy throughout, rarely 6in. and often under lin. 

 long. Larger leaves in 2 rows, distichously spreading, scarcely 1 line long, ovate ; 

 2 inner rows appressed, rather smaller. Spikes terminal, oblong, rarely above 6 

 lines long, 2 lines broad in the larger specimens, the spreading bracts Very 

 similar to the larger stem-leaves. — S. Belangeri, Spring, Monogr. Lycop. ii. 

 242 ; Benth. Fl. Austr: vii. 679 ; Lycopodium proniflorum, Lam.; L Belanaeri 

 Bory in Belang, Voy. Bot. 12, t. 1, f. 2. 



Hab.: Etheridge Eiver, Gulliver; bookingham Bay, Dallachy; York Peninsula, W. Taylor. 



8. S. pumilio (dwarf), Spring, Mon. ii. 241 ; Baker, Fern Allies, 114. Stems 

 very slender, erect, nearly simple, under lin. long, the root-fibres confine^, to the 

 base. Leaves of the lower plane spaced, ovate, acute, denticulate, i line long 

 membranous, nearly equal-sided ; of the upper plane one-third as long, ovate 



