LYCOPODIACEA 335 



Lycopodium opodum, Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 184 ; Willd. Spec. PI. 5, p. 38 ; Hook. Bot. 



Misc. 2, p. 399. 

 L. Brasiliense, Raddi, Plant. Brasil. p. 82, t. 1, f. 1. 

 L. patulum, Gaud. Bot. Freyc. Toy. p. 285. 

 L. albidulum, Hook. Bot. Misc. 2, p. 398. 



Hab. On the Organ Mountains, Brazil. 



Plant 3 or 4 inches high, of a pale green colour, composed of 

 slender, branching stems, throwing out roots at the axils of the 

 branches. Leaves distichous, ovate-oblong, acute, and slightly cordate 

 at the base; the margin finely serrated; the nerve slightly keeled 

 on the upper side. Stipules appressed, oval, and somewhat cuspidate, 

 about one-third the size of the leaves, but having longer teeth on 

 the margin. Spikes a little over a quarter of an inch in length, 

 four-angled, usually solitary, with oblong, acuminate, and finely toothed 

 bracts. 



9. Selaginella ciliaris, Spring. 



Selaginella ciliaris, Spring, in Mem. Acad. Brux. 24, p. 233. 



Lycopodium ciliare, Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 185; Willd. Spec. PL 5, p. 46; Blume, Enum. 



PL Jav. p. 270. 

 L. calostachyum, Hook. Bot. Misc. 3, p. 108. 



Hab. On mountains, behind the town of Muthuata, Feejee Islands. 



The whole plant is from 3 to 5 inches high, and branched from 4 

 to 6 times in a distichous manner ; the lower branches are somewhat 

 assurgent, and with filiform roots springing from the axils ; the upper 

 branches are more erect and spreading, the points slightly incurved. 

 Leaves of a darker green on the upper than under surface, on the 

 inferior half of the plant somewhat distant, above more approximated 

 and spreading, ovate-oblong, obtuse, slightly keeled above, and with a 

 narrow channel underneath ; the base ciliate, the superior half dilated 

 and partially concealing the stem, the inferior edge decurrent. Sti- 

 pules about one-fourth the size of the leaves, oval, contracted rather 

 abruptly into a short tail-like point, which is turned a little to one 

 side; the margin ciliated; the nerve forming a slight keel on the 





