Descriptions of the Species. 
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160. Lycopodium verticillatum. Linn. 
Plate CLII. Natural size. 
Stems at first upright, pendulous after they get a foot long, or 
less if horizontal ; slender, weak, one to three feet long, two to 
three lines diameter, including leaves, repeatedly dichotomously 
forked ; the terminal branches often a foot long, and unforked. 
Leaves set all round the stem in a spiral or sub-whorled arrange- 
ment, deep green, entire, very numerous, subulate, quarter-inch 
long, quarter-line broad, somewhat spreading, but with the point 
inflexed. Sporangia small, in the axils of ordinary leaves, 
abundant on the upper branches, and often produced over most of 
the plant, but with no distinct spike, or separate bracts. 
Young plants have stems half-inch diameter, including leaves, 
and the leaves on them are a half-inch long, but narrow and 
subulate. 
L. verticillatum. Linn. Suppl. 448 ; Pappe and Rawson, 50 ; Baker, 
Fern Allies, 14 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 187 ; Buchanan’s List, 27. 
L. setaceum. Pappe and Rawson, 159. 
On ledges of rock, or epiphytal on trees through most of the 
southern hemisphere. 
Kaff. — Komgha (Flanagan), not uncommon in the Perie, Chumie, and 
Stutterheim Forests. 
Natal. — Maritzburg and Umpumulo Bush (Buchanan), collected also by 
Gueinzius, and Plant. 
Transvaal. — Macamac (M‘Lea, 31). 
1 6 1. Lycopodium gnidioides. Linn. 
Plate CLIII. 1. Fertile part, natural size. 2. Young shoot, barren, 
natural size. 
Stem one to two feet long, two to four times dichotomously 
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, 
