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THE FERNS OF SOUTH AFRICA 
Transvaal. — Macamac (McLea, 31); Houtbosch, 6800 ft (R. SchL 
4757, 6800; W. Nelson, 458 ; J. Burtt-Davy, 5155); Woodbush (Miss 
Doidge). 
Rhodesia. — Umtali (Holland); Mt Pene, 7000 ft (Swyn. 6010). 
202. Lycopodium gnidioides Linn. 
Plate 177. 1. Fertile part, nat. size. 2. Young shoot, barren, 
nat. size. B Bract. C Leaves. 
Stem one to two feet long, two to four times dichoto- 
mously forked, stout and erect below, half inch or more 
in diameter, including leaves, becoming more slender and 
pendulous upward ; often fertile for half its length, but with 
the fertile part distinct, dichotomously forked, one to two 
lines diameter, and with differently shaped leaves or bracts, 
though these pass gradually into the ordinary form where 
they meet. Fertile portion of stem often continuing to 
elongate year after year, the present year’s growth often 
succulent and wider, and containing large yellow unopened 
sporangia while the older portion is more slender and less 
succulent, but with empty sporangia in the axils of the bracts. 
Leaves set all round the stem, but in about eight regular 
straight lines. Leaves thick, coriaceous, green or yellowish 
green, half inch long, one line broad, blunt or shortly pointed, 
loosely adpressed, entire, those in the fertile portion shorter, 
rounder, more pointed, and scarcely larger than the very large 
yellow spore cases. 
L. gnidioides. Linn. Fil. Supftl. 448; Schl. Adum. 7, tab. 2; Kze, 
Linnaea , 10, 486; Pappe and Rawson, 49; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 184; 
Baker, Fern Allies , 17; Sim, Ferns of S. Afr ., 1st ed., 243. 
L. finifolium Kaulf. Pappe and Rawson, 49. 
South Africa and Mascarenes ; growing on trees or in 
clefts of rock in forest. 
West. — George, Table Mountain (E. and Z.) ; Knysna (Bolus) ; 
Koratra (Drege). 
East. — Grahamstown (Dr Atherstone); Howison’s Poort (MacOwan). 
Kaff. — Frequent in the Perie and other forests, over 2000 feet alt. 
Natal. — Inanda, Umpumulo, Maritzburg, Richmond, Karkloof, no- 
where common (Buchanan) ; Zwaartkop, Quideni, Nkandhla, 
Ngomi, Ngoya, etc. (T. R. Sim). 
