THE FERN WORLD OF AUSTRALIA. 
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Victoria and Tasmania. [L. fastigiatum, R. Br., Prod. L. diffnsum, 
iSpring. L. clavatum, var. magellanicum, Hook. f. Flora, Tasm.] 
L. caroliniana, Linn. (Carolina, N. Amer., another iiabitat.) 
Rhizome slender, brittle, closely prostrate, sending up short, erect 
stems, the upper part of which is fertile Leaves about two lines 
.long, two rows, often rather longer and more spreading than the 
other two. Stradbroke and Moreton Islands. Common in Tas- 
mania and Western Australia, where it has been named L. 
.serpentinum, Kunze. in PI. Preiss. and L. Drummondii, Spring, 
rMonogr. 
L. laterale, R- Br. (Referring to the lateral spikes.) Stems 
erect, but slightly branched, one or two feet high. Leaves lanceolate- 
subulate, two to three Hues long. Spikes few lateral, sessile, half 
^to one inch long. Bracts brown. Stradbroke and Moreton Islands; 
'^Blue Mountains and Port Jackson, N. S. Wales, and several localties 
in Victoria. 
L. diffusum, R. Br. (Procumbent and loosely branched.) Plant 
.procumbent, stems branched, shortly ascending. Leaves linear, 
.acute, or obtuse, about two lines long, spreading or almost imbricate. 
Spikes lateral brown, sessile or pedunculate. Grampians, Victoria ; 
^^and several localities in Tasmania. 
L. cernuum, Linn. (Drooping, the spikes.) Stems from a 
creeping rhizome, two to four feet high, or even more, branching 
,with flexuose forked branches. Leaves spreading, filiform, two to 
/four lines long. , Spikes sessile, nodding three or four lines long, 
, often light-colored. Bracts ciliate, imbricate in eight rows, longer 
f than the spprcrcases. Upper Victoria River, North AustraHa ; 
Rockingham Bay, Daintree River, Glasshouse Mountains, Logan 
River,, and other places in Queensland. 
L..> densum, Labill. (Dense, the branches.) Stems from a creeping 
i base, erect, irom one to sometimes three feet high, branched in the 
-upper. part. Leaves crowded all round, lanceolate with scarious tips 
. two lines long, leaves of the branches scarcely one line long and 
, imbricate. ; Spikes terminal, numerous, erect, half to one inch long. 
:Bracts , ovate-lanceolate, „ tips spreading, margins often scarious. 
;'Port Jackson, New England, &c., N. S. Wales ; Grampians, 
;>M.ount Oobberas, Upper Yarra River, and Cape Howe, in Victoria ; 
..and in. many localities in Tasmania. 
L. scariosum, Forst. (Alluding to the dry, scarious tips of the 
bracts.) Stems pros.trate, sometimes very long, with short ascending 
J branches. : Leaves distichously spreading, decurrent, about two 
-lines long, with appressed ones between the two rows. Spikes 
, terminal, sessile, about half an inch long, with broad spreading 
i, bracts in four rows, the tips and margins scarious. Swampy parts 
, of Mount Baw-Baw, the sources of the Yarra, Victoria ; Table 
i Mountains, and maxij boggy localities in Tasmania. [L. decurrens, 
,rR..Br., Prod.] 
L. volulbile, Forst. (Climbing.) Stems slender, very long and 
iilGs:uQ,se,,tlie leaves of which are narrow and appressed, but on the 
