Descriptions of the Species. 
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diameter, conical, sessile, often drooping ; bracts ovate, pointed, 
adpressed, ciliated. 
L. cernuum. Linn.; Schl. Adum. 5 5 Kze. Linnsea, 13; Pappe and 
Rawson, 49 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 183 ; Baker, Fern Allies, 23. 
Widely distributed in the tropics ; growing on damp banks or 
among stones in sunshine. 
West. — Hot springs of the Goudine (Mund), Klip River, Swellendam 
(Holland), Tulbagh, and Mitchell’s Pass (MacOwan). 
East. — Bosch Kloof (Drege), Van Staaden’s River (Browning). 
KafF. — Omzamvubo (Dr. Atherstone). 
Natal. — Umgeni (Dr. Rehmann, 8662), common on the coast, Durban 
Flat to Field’s Hill, Inanda, and Umpumulo (Buchanan). 
163. Lycopodium Clavatum. Linn. 
Plate CLV. Fig. 1. Natural size. 
Stem procumbent, several yards long, pinnately branched, 
rooting at short intervals, generally with a long tail-like point, 
behind which the branches are short and simple, then dicho- 
tomous, then repeatedly dichotomous, or pinnate. Branches all 
more or less ascending, sometimes rooting, the lower ones very 
much branched, six to twelve inches long or elongating into fresh 
stems. Leaves finely toothed, firm, green, linear or subulate, 
channelled, one and a half to four lines long, loosely spreading, 
with the white hair point directed forward. Fertile part distinct, 
terminal on ordinary side branches, separated from the leafy part 
by a nearly naked stalk, two to four inches high, and divided into 
two, or sometimes into three or four, yellow shortly stalked spikes, 
one to two inches long, one and a half lines diameter, with 
spreading, ovate, pointed bracts. Roots firm, single, wiry. 
Common name is “ Toad’s Tail,” or “ Club moss.” 
L. clavatum. Linn. Sp.; Pappe and Rawson, 49 ; Baker, Fern Allies, 26. 
L. clavatum, L., var. inflexum, Spring.; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 184; Buchanan’s 
List, 27. 
L. inflexum. Swartz. 
