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MERRILL AND MERRITT. 
EQUISETACEiE. 
EQUISETUM Linn. 
1. E. ramosissimum Desf. FI. Atl. 2 (1800) 398. 
Stream depressions in lower pine region, G. M. Z. 16321, Merrill 6390. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines; cosmopolitan in warm temperate and 
tropical regions of the world. 
LYCOPODIACEiE. 
LYCOPODIUM Linn. 
1. L. carinatum Desv. in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. 3: 599. 
In the mossy forest above an altitude of 2,300 m, C. M. Z. 16322, McGregor 
8836, Copeland 2301. 
Widely distributed on the mountains of the Philippines; India to Formosa, 
Malaya, and Polynesia. 
2. L. complanatum L. Sp. PI. ed. 2 (1763) 1567. 
In the mossy forest, altitude about 2,700 m, C. M. Z. 16324- 
Known in the Philippines only from the Benguet-Lepanto region, the Philippine 
material being referable to the var. thuyoides H. B. K. 
North temperate zone of both hemispheres, southward through Malaya to New 
Guinea. 
3. L. volubile Forst. Prodr. (1786) 86. 
In the mossy forest above an altitude of 2,300 m, Merrill 6392. 
Higher mountains throughout the Philippines; New' Zealand, Polynesia, New 
Caledonia, northern Australia, and the mountains of the Malay Archipelago and 
Peninsula. 
SELAGINELLACEiE. 
SELAGINELLA Linn. 
Two species of this genus are represented in the collections, the first, Merrill 
6389, from boulders in stream depressions, altitude about 1,500 m, and the second 
from the mossy forest, above an altitude of 2,300 m, McGregor 88 77, Merrill 6391. 
GYMNOSPERMAE. 
TAXACEA3. 
TAX US Linn. 
1. T. baccata Linn., subsp. wallichiana (Zucc.) Pilg. in Engl. Pflanzenreich 
18 (1903) 112. 
In the mossy forest above an altitude of 2,300' m, C. M. Z. 18106. 
In the Philippines known only from high altitudes in the Benguet-Lepanto 
region, and from Mount Banajao, Luzon; Himalayan region to Burma, Sumatra 
( ? ) , and Celebes, the species very widely distributed in the north temperate zone. 
PODOCARPUS L’Herit. 
1. P. imbricatus Bl. var. cumingii (Pari.) Pilg. 1. c. 56. 
In the mossy forest above an altitude of 2^300 m, £7. M. Z. 18049. Locally 
known as igum. 
Widely distributed on the higher mountains of the Philippines from northern 
Luzon to southern Mindanao, the species in Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, Burma, 
and Hainan. 
