DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIES 
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inches long from where it joins the barren pinnule, which is 
glabrous, thin, cordate, pointed, somewhat involute, three to 
four inches long, one and a half to two inches broad, with a 
distinctly cordate base, and very short petiole or none. Veins 
distinct, reticulated, without a mid-rib. Fertile spike longer 
than the barren frond. Larger and thinner than O. vulgatum, 
to which it is closely allied. 
O. reticulatum. Linn. Sp. 1518; Kunze, Linnaea , 9, 12; Pappe and 
Rawson, 48; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 179; Hk. and Bkr, Syn. Fil. 447; 
Sim, Ferns of S. Afr., 1st ed., 238; C. Chr. Ind. 472. 
O. vulgatum , var. reticulatum. Mett. 
Widely distributed ; growing among grass, or under bushes. 
All the specimens in the Cape Herbarium are from Natal, 
and Kuhn’s furthest south locality is Natal, though Lady 
Barkly says “throughout South Africa,” and Baker gives 
“ Cape Colony.” 
Natal. — All over the colony (Wood); about the upper margins of 
bush over most of the colony (Buchanan) ; Cato’s Creek, Durban ; 
in Natal Botanic Garden; Umbilo; near Tongaat (McKen) ; Umlaas 
River (Krauss). 
Transvaal. — ( Burtt-Davy). 
Rhodesia. — Ironmask Hill, Mazoe, 5000 ft (E. Eyles, whose specimen 
was fifteen inches long; barren frond three inches long, two inches 
wide, cordate, shortly stalked, placed half up, fertile part one and a 
half inches long). 
Portuguese East Africa. — Zambesiland (Kirk). 
COHORT II. LYCOPODI ALES. 
ORDER VI. LYCOPODI ACE AE. 
Genus 57. Lycopodium Linn. 
Capsules uniform, reniform, one-celled, opening length- 
ways along the top. Spores uniform. Capsules placed singly 
in the axils of ordinary leaves, or of bracts arranged in 
terminal spikes. A large genus ; often very similar in ap- 
pearance and habit to species of Selaginella. 
Stems dichotomously branched, procumbent or sub-erect, 
clothed all round, or in some species on the upper side only, 
with adpressed or spreading leaves. In some the capsules 
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