646 LYCOPODIACBjE. 



nutely ciliate, middle ones semiovate, pointed ; bracts conform, 4-sticlious, cuspidate. — S. 

 sulcangnla. Spring h: a large form, its stems erect, simple below. — Leaves rigid, |"'-|"' 

 long,— Hab. Jamaica !, Pd. ; [Cuba !, Wr. 939, to Brazil !]. 



7. S. flabellata, Spring. Stem stout, erect, jryramidal-hranched above, continuous : 

 secondary branches approximate, dense, pinnately alternate ; leaves ovate-oblong, acute at 

 the sutfaleate summit, v/pward half-cordate at the hose, entire at the lower, slightly serru- 

 late at the upper margin, middle ones obliquely elliptical, mucronate ; bracts conform, 

 4-stichou3, acuminate. — Plum. Fit. t. 43, inf. sinistr. — Lycopodium, L. — 8"-2' high; 

 leaves of the branches 1'" long. — Hab. Dominica!, Imr., S. Vincent I, Guild.; [French 

 islands !, Siel. Mart. 233 ; Panama I to Peru ! and Brazil ! ; Pacific islands !; East Indies ! 

 to South China !]. 



S. alhonitens. Spring. A West Indian species, distinguished from all others by com- 

 pressed aments and difform bracts, has not yet been sent from the British islands. 



** Stem jomted at the origin of branches. 



8. S. stolonifera, i^m^. " S^esi cre«ji)s«^, distichous-branched, jointed ; leaves del- 

 toid, pointed, denticulate, middle ones falcate, acuminate ; aments short : bracts 4-stichoas, 

 conform." — Lycopodium, Sm. — Hab. Jamaica (S».) ; [Cuba ; Haiti]. 



9. S. ciliauricnla. Spring. " Stem creeping, distichous-branched, jointed ; leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate, pointed, long-ciliate at the base, middle ones falcate, acuminate, long- 

 cUiate ; bracts conform, 4-9tichous, shortly acuminate." — S. mnioides, Spring (ex parte), sec. 

 A. Br. — Hab. Trinidad {Sieb., Or. sec. A. Br.) ; [Venezuela]. 



2. LYCOPODIUM, Z. 



Sporangia reniform, 1-celled, 2 valved : spores oo. — Leaves many-i-serial. 

 * Sporangia in aments. 

 f Sterile leaves of two kinds. 



10. Ii, scariosiun, Forst. Ascending ; leaves adnate-decurrent, those of the sterile 

 branches diftorm, anterior larger, S-serial-lateral, spreading, subfalcate-oblong or ovate- 

 oblong, pointed, ^o*<mo?' S-serial, lanceolate, scarions at the tapering point, conform to 

 the 6-serial leaves of the fertile branches ; bracts in cylindrical aments, deltoid-acuminate, 

 scarions above. 



[a. Aments sessile or Shortly peduneled.] i 



p. Jussicei, Desv. Fertile branches produced into long, divided peduncles. — Mook. Ic. 

 t. 186. — L. Gayanum, Clos, in PI. Philippi, 553. 



Hab. Jamaica !, Pd., Bancr., S. Georges, Moorce's Gap (;8) ; [;8, Venezuela! to Fuegia ; 

 «(, New Zealand !, Tasmania]. 



11. Ij. complanatum, X. Ascending; leaves subulate-lanceolate, adnate-decurrent, 

 those of the sterile, flattish branches i-serial, larger 2-serial-lateral, of the smaller ones 

 one series anterior, the other posterior ; aments peduneled, fastigiate, 12^2 : bracts broadly 

 subulate, scarious at the point. — Schk. Crypt, t. 168. — L. thyoides, Kth. . the tropical 

 larger form with the aments usually more numerous. — Hab. Jamaica !, PA, 5aMcr., Blue 

 Mountains; [temperate regions of the globe]. , 



^ 12. Ii. carolinianumj L. Creeping, with erect peduncles ; leaves of the creeping 

 branches difform, lateral ^serial, oblong-lanceolate, pointed, anterior lanceolate-linear, 

 nearly as long, irregularly i-serial, conform to those of the ]>ed.\mc\s, posterior none ; 



' aments single, cylindrical : bracts subulate, S-serial. — L. repens, Sw. — Hab. Trinidad !, 

 Pd., in savannahs ; [United States ! to Brazil 1; trop. Africa ! to the Cape ! ; East Indies ! ; 

 Tasmania !]. 



.'"■ ff Sterile leaves conform. 



/ 13. Ii. clavatum, L. Creeping with ascending, leafy branches; leaves many-serial, 



conform, incurved-spreading, lanceolate or limear-acuminate with a terminal hair, decres- 



[icent along the peduncle; aments cylindrical, fastigiate, 8-2: bracts peltate-deltoid, seta- 



