Descriptions of the Species. 
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E. ramosissimum. Desf. Flor. Atlant. II. 398 ; Buchanan's List ; Baker, 
Fern Allies, 4 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 181. 
E. elongatum (W.) Schl. Adum. 3, tab 1 ; Harvey Gen. Ed. 1, 377. 
Almost cosmopolitan ; rare in South Africa ; growing in or 
near water. 
West.— Chamka and Olifant’s Rivers (Mund and Maire), Bankberg, near 
Baaken, on the Gareip (Drege). 
East. — Sunday’s River, Graaffreinet, common (Bolus), Fish River, Somer- 
set (J. Leonard), Zwartkop River (Zeyher). 
Kaff. — Matatiele (Tyson), Buffalo River near Izeli Hotel, Stream below 
Fort Cunynghame. 
Natal. — Umpumulo, Uyr’s Dooms Spruit Drift (Buchanan). 
(Equisetum arvense, Linn., which has the fertile stem 
simple, herbaceous, and evanescent, and the barren stem annual 
and very much branched in regular whorls, is included by Kuhn 
(“Fil. Afr.,” 181) from Cape (Bergins). It is not known at the 
Cape, nor is it known at Kew as a Cape plant, and is probably a 
mistake.) 
Order III. — Lycopodiacr^. 
Genus XXXIX. — Lycopodium. Linn. 
Capsules uniform, reniform, one-celled. A large genus, very 
distinct in habit from Psilotum, the only other South African 
genus of this Order, but often very similar in habit to species of 
Selaginella. 
Stems dichotomously branched, procumbent or sub-erect, 
clothed all round, or in some species on the upper side only, with 
adpressed or spreading leaves. In some the capsules (Sporangia) 
are produced in the axils of ordinary leaves all along the stem ; in 
others they are confined to the upper part of the stem, or to 
separate spikes, terminal on the branches, and in these cases the 
capsule-bearing leaves are reduced to ovate bracts. The spores 
develop prothalia, in which the sexual organs occur. 
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