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pressed. This is not unlike a small state of L. gnidioides , 
but the capsules are not confined to the points of the branches, 
nor are the leaves reduced to bracts where fertile. 
L. saururus Lam. Baker, Fern Allies , 10; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 186; 
Buchanan’s List, 27; Sim, Ferns of S. Afr., 1st ed., 243. 
South America, Africa, and its islands; growing on stones. 
Cape. — (Ecklon and Zeyher ,fide Kuhn.) 
Natal. — Nottingham Bush, and Lynedoch (Buchanan) ; Shafton 
(Mrs H. Hutton, 166); Zwaartkop (T. R. Sim). 
201. Lycopodium verticillatum Linn. 
Plate 178. Nat. size. 
Stems at first upright, pendulous after they get a foot long, 
or less if horizontal ; slender, weak, one to three feet long, two 
to three lines diameter, including leaves, repeatedly dichoto- 
mously forked ; the terminal branches often a foot long, 
and unforked. Leaves set all round the stem in a spiral or 
sub-whorled arrangement, deep green, entire, very numerous, 
subulate, quarter inch long, quarter line broad, somewhat 
spreading, but with the point inflexed. Sporangia small, in 
the axils of ordinary leaves, abundant on the upper branches, 
and often produced over most of the plant, but with no distinct 
spike, or separate bracts. 
Young plants have stems half inch diameter, including 
leaves, and the leaves on them are a half inch long, but narrow 
and subulate. 
L. verticillatum. Linn. Suppl. 448; Pappe and Rawson, 50; Baker, 
Fern Allies , 14; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 187; Buchanan’s List, 27; Sim, 
Ferns of S. Afr., 1st ed., 243. 
L. setaceum. Pappe and Rawson, 159. 
On ledges of rock, or epiphytal on trees, through most of 
the southern hemisphere. 
Raff. — Komgha (Flanagan) ; not uncommon in the Perie, Chumie, 
and Stutterheim Forests. 
Natal.— Mari tzburg and Umpumulo Bush (Buchanan); collected also 
by Gueinzius, and Plant; frequent in all dense bushes in Natal and 
Zululand (T. R. Sim). 
