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and the capillary point peculiar to many forms of this species is very 

 short. The Brazilian specimens are tolerably well represented by 

 Raddi's figure of his L. pilifermn ; in which the capillary point is half 

 as long as the leaf itself. 



24. Lycopodium venustulum, Gaud. 



Lycopodium venustulum. Gaud. Bot. Freyc. Voy. p. 283, t. 22 ; Spring, in Mem. 

 Acad. Brux. 15, p. 84. 



Hab. Sandwich Islands ; on mountains of Hawaii and Oahu ; at an 

 elevation of from 4,000 to 8,000 feet. 



Hooker and Greville, in the Botanical Miscellany, have referred 

 this to the L. aristatum, Humboldt ; a species with which we are not 

 acquainted, and we therefore prefer following M. Spring, who con- 

 siders the two plants as distinct. The leaves are shorter, incurved, 

 more crowded, and somewhat imbricated ; the spikes are much longer ; 

 the scales larger ; and the diaphanous hair at the point is also longer 

 than in the preceding species, to which in habit it bears considerable 

 resemblance. 



Gaudichaud's figure represents that state of the plant, found in 

 sheltered situations, which has the leaves less crowded and more 

 spreading than in specimens from more elevated, arid, and exposed 

 localities. 



25. Lycopodium Magellanicum, Sw. 



Lycopodium Magellanicum, far. Syn. Fil. p. 180; Willd. Spec. PI. 5, p. 15; Gaud. 



Bot. Freyc. Voy. p. 282; Hook. Bot. Misc. 2, p. 377; Spring, in Mem. Acad. 



Brux. 15, p. 96. 

 L. clavatum, var. Hook. f. Fl. Antarc. p. 113. 



Hab. Orange Harbour, Tierra del Fuego ; frequent. 



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