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.TEflyp iF'EI^N WQIlXiD OF AU»iTRALIA. 
As the genera Lycopodium^ Selaginella, Tmesipteris, and iPsilotum, 
are frequently cultivated with ferns, it has been deemed advisable 
to add the few Australian species to this work. 
Lycopodium, Linn. (The name is derived from the supposed 
resemblance of the forked stems of some species to the foot of a 
wolf.) Club mosses. In habit these plants are creeping, prostrate 
or erect. The leaves vary from thread-like to broad imbricate scales, 
entire or minutely toothed, and are inserted round the stem usually 
in four rows. Spore-cases all of one kind, flattened one-celled, two- 
valved, sessile in the axil of the upper leaves, or of bracts usually 
smaller or broader than the stem leaves, and forming terminal or 
lateral spikes. Spores all very small, 
L. selago, Linn. Fir club moss. A common European species. 
Stems procumbent. Branches forked, erect, forming dense level- 
topped tufts of a few inches high, clothed with dark green lanceolate 
leaves three or four lines long, point fine. Spikes distinct, but the 
leaves or bracts similar to the stem leaves. Mountains of Victoria 
and Tasmania. 
L. varium, R. Br. (Plant variable.) Stems stout, erect or 
pendulous, simple or branched, six to eighteen inches long. Leaves 
crowded round the stem, lanceolate, sometimes nearly half an inch 
long, spreading. Spikes terminal,, two or , three incljeslong, solitary 
or two or three together. Bracts Iqafy, two to three lines long, or 
small and acuminate. Lord Howe's Island, and mountains of both 
Victoria, and Tasmania. [L. selago, yar. F. -v. M., Fragm V.] 
In the Queensland Acclimatisation Society's bush house at Bowen 
Park, is a remarkable robust-form of this species. The plant was 
sent to the Society by a gentleman who gathered it in Northern 
Queensland, the locality not named. Plant epiphytal, pendulous. 
Stems dichotomously branched, one and a half to two feet long, 
without the spikes which are from six to nine inches long, and also 
forked. Leaves six to nine lines long. This form has quite the 
habit of L. phlegmaria, but without the marked difference between 
the leaves and bracts of that species. 
L. phlegmaria, Linn. Stems elongated, pendulous, Leaves 
lanceolate, four to six lines long. Spikes several times forked, six 
to twelve or more inches long. Bracts closely imbricate in four rows, 
broad, about as long as spore-cases. This is one of the most 
graceful epiphytes of Australia. On rocks and trees of tropical 
Queensland. 
L. clavatum, Linn, var. fastigiatum. (Referring to the club- 
shaped infloresence.) Stems from a creeping base, ascending a few 
inches. Leaves crowded, linear-lanceolate, about two lines long. 
Spikes terminal, erect, pedunculate, often a few inches long. Bracts 
with fine, spreading tips. Moist, boggy places in the mountains of 
