Lycopodium .] 
II. LYCOPODTACE/E. 
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ill Tasmania and throughout the Andes of South America to Fuegia, and on the mountains 
of Jamaica. 
10. li. volubile, Forst. ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 55. A lofty climber, festooning 
trees, etc. Stems slender, wiry, many feet long, much branched, sparingly 
leafy ; branches spreading, compressed, dichotomously and flabellately divided. 
Leaves of 2 kinds, exactly as in L. scariosum, but with more acuminate points. 
Spikes in branched dichotomous panicles, slender, ^-2| in. long, cylindric, 
or obscurely 4-farious, pedicelled. Scales small, orbicular, suddenly con- 
tracted into a subulate point, margins toothed or entire. Spores broadly 
pyriform, broad end granular, the other transparent. — Hook, and Grev. 1c. 
I'd. t. 70; L. D'Urvillei, A. Rich.? 
Abundant throughout the Northern and Middle Islands, Banlcs and So/ander, etc. 
Also found iu Java, hut hitherto in no other part of the world. The most beautiful species 
of the genus. 
A specimen of L. Phlegmaria, Liun., a tropical species, having been mixed with Menzies’ 
New Zealand collections, has been erroneously described as a native of these islands. Cun- 
ningham’s specimens so named are L. Billardieri. 
3. TMESIPTERIS, Bernhardi. 
Roots fibrous.— Fronds pendulous, flaccid, simple or rarely branched ; stipes 
angled. Leaves vertical, sessile, falcate, decurrent, oblong or ensiform, obtuse 
truncate or acute, rarely acuminate, coriaceous ; costa stout, often excurrent, 
oblique ; veins 0, fertile ones stalked, 2-lobed or 2 together with a capsule 
seated in the fork between them. Capsule transversely oblong, coriaceous, 
2-lobed, 2-valved, bursting by a vertical slit. Spores most minute, oblong, 
curved. 
A curious but very variable plant, found in Australia, the Pacific Islands, and California. 
1. T. Forsteri, Endliclier ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 51. Stems 6-24 in. long. 
Leaflets -|-1 in. long, pale green. Capsules -g- in, long. — T. Tannensis, Labill. 
FI. Nov. Holl. t. 252. 
Abundant throughout the Northern and Middle Islands: often epiphytic on tree- 
ferns, Banks and Sulander, etc. Lord Auckland’s group, Bolton. 
4. PSILOTUM, Swartz. 
Rhizome short, stout. — Fronds tufted, rigid, 3-quetrous, dichotomously 
branched above, leafless or with minute scattered scale-like leaves. Capsules 
in the axils of the minute scales, large, coriaceous, 3-lobed, 3-celled. Spores 
very minute, bursting when placed in water, oblong, hyaline, with a central 
pale nucleus. 
1. P. triquetrum, Swartz. F.ronds erect or pendulous, 2-12 in. long, 
green, slender, simple below, dichotomously branched above. Branches 3- 
gonous. Scales or leaves scattered, i in. long. Capsides a in. diam. — Hook. 
Fil. Exot. t. 63. 
Northern Island: Motuhona Island, Bay of Plenty, Jolliffe. A common fern in very 
many parts, especially of the southern hemisphere, both temperate and tropical, also found 
in California. 
