DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIES 
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one line long, lanceolate, ciliated, keeled, and hair-pointed ; 
spreading when wet, adpressed when dry. Fertile spikes on 
the lower branches, not terminal, often in pairs ; half inch 
long, half line diameter, four-angled, the bracts in four regular 
keeled rows, ovate-pointed, ciliated, hair-pointed, adpressed. 
S. rupestris Spreng. Baker, Fern Allies , 35; Kuhn, Fil. Afr . 192 
and 212; Buchanan’s List, p. 2 7; Sim, Ferns of S. Afr ., 1st ed., 250. 
S. rupestris , var. caffrorum. Milde, Fil. Eur . 262. 
Lycopodium rupesti'e. Linn. Sp. 1 564 ; Pappe and Rawson, 50. 
Lycopodium Dregei. Presl. 
Braun (in Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 212) divides the African forms 
of this species into several sub-species receding from the 
American and Asiatic type; but the distinctions are too finely 
cut, and one patch partly in shade and partly exposed gives 
at least two of his forms. 
He gives as South African forms : 
j 3 . incurva. A. Br. MS. Green; stems adpressed to the ground; 
point of the leaves incurved, with the hair-point round upward, and 
denticulate at the apex. Cilia twelve to twenty; the lower long, 
the upper short and toothlike. 
A. capensis. Gilia twelve to fifteen, hair-point quarter the length 
of the lamina or less; white. 
B. angolensis. Cilia fifteen to twenty, hair-point more than 
quarter the length of the lamina ; yellowish. 
y. recurva. A. Br. MS. Glaucous, prostrate but not adpressed ; 
point of the leaves recurved. Cilia ten to fifteen, spreading. Arista 
flattened, ciliate or toothed. 
A. Dregeana. A. Br. MS.=var. Dregei Milde. Leaves narrow, 
bristle-ciliated below. 
B. Welwitschiana. A. Br. MS. Leaves wider, much recurved, 
bristle-toothed below. 
Widely distributed in temperate regions, or on mountains 
in the tropics, usually on bare rocks. In South Africa from 
2000 to 7000 feet alt. or more. Not recorded from West, but 
doubtless present on some of the rocky mountains of that 
region. Burtt-Davy includes in his Check-list S'. Di r egei 
Hiern., var. pretoriensis Hiern., which belongs here. 
East. — Algoa Bay (Lehmann). 
Kaff. — Windvogelsberg (Baur) ; Katberg, 4000 to 5000 feet ; and 
Witbergen, 5000 to 6000 feet (Drege) ; between Omsamcaba 
