DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIES 
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L. clavatum L., var. inflexum Spring. Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 184; Bu- 
chanan’s List, 27. 
L. inflexum. Swartz. 
Widely distributed in cold countries. In South Africa 
and other sub-tropical countries seldom below 4000 feet alt. ; 
growing in open grassy slopes. Our form is var. inflexum 
Spring. 
West. — Mountains of Hottentot’s Holland (Zeyher) ; Langebergen, 
near Zuurbraak, 3000 ft (R. Schl. 2147). 
East. — Boschberg (MacOwan); Stone’s Hill, Grahamstown. 
Kaff. — Bethel (Zeyher); Katberg (Holland); Perie, and Mount Kemp, 
rare (T. R. Sim). 
Natal. — Inanda, Umpumulo, Maritzburg (Buchanan ; Plant, 329); 
Zwaartkop and Sweetwaters (T. R. Sim). 
Transvaal. — Macamac (McLea, 19); Sabie Falls to Pilgrim’s Rest 
(Burtt-Davy, 432); Barberton (Burtt-Davy, 558; L. Reck, 372); 
Rosehaugh (J. M. Sim). 
Rhodesia. — Mt Pene, 6500 — 7000 ft (Swyn. 805). 
206. Lycopodium carolinianum Linn. 
Plate 1 8 1 . Fig. 1. Nat. size, b Capsule and bract, enlarged. 
Stem quite prostrate, rooting at every branch, pinnately 
branched, three to nine inches long, and terminated by the 
fertile spike, or more frequently extending beyond it; leafless 
on the under surface, but with a row on each side of spreading, 
nearly horizontal, obliquely lanceolate or falcate, pointed, 
firmly herbaceous leaves, a quarter to half inch long, and 
one line broad; and also with the upper surface thinly covered 
with smaller, lanceolate pointed, somewhat imbricated leaves 
in about three rows, which keep the direction of the stem, 
but are not closely adpressed, and are hardly half the size 
of the others. Fertile spike single, one to two inches long, 
two lines diameter, on a nearly naked erect stalk, two to 
four inches long. Bracts in regular lines, roundly ovate or 
sub-cordate, with a deflexed or spreading point. The growth 
of the stem is nearly annual, the older stem dying off during 
dry weather, leaving only the branches, or two to three 
inches of the point to start again. I have not seen more 
than two spikes on one plant, though Schlechtendal figures 
