Lycopodiace^e of Guiana and their Allies. 47 
la. I., 1-1$: li. w. Texture rather flaccid; colour pale or straw green. 
Fertile branches as long as the barren part, repeatedly forked. Bracks 
sharply acuminate, keeled. Sporangia copious. 
im Thurn n. 230, base of the cliff, Roraima. This 
species resembles in general aspe6t that preceding itagood 
deal, and closely in habit, but is more slender and much 
more pliant and flaccid, the leaves more apart, narrower and 
more acuminate, and pale in colour, and it seems to 
grow very much longer, — no doubt, from the branches of 
trees. Its general distribution I find I have overlooked, 
and no books within my reach show it. 
§ § $ Fertile branches not modified, but conform with the barren part — 
Species 7-13. 
7. LYCOPODruM FUNrFORME, Borv. — Spring Mong. Lyeopod. I., p. 50. 
— Branches long, simple or occasionally dichotomous, pendent or pros- 
trate, 2-3 ft. 1. Leaves crowded, several -serial, not spreading, straight 
and stiff, contracted laterally or convolute, i-l in. 1. i-i li. w., freely 
overlapping, sharp, even-margined. Sporangia reniform, \ li. w., the 
lips closed, visible between the narrow leaves. 
This species is peculiar for its; long tail-like branches, 
which only infrequently fork, and that reach feronx 1-3 ft. K 
When on trees it is strictly pendent,, but it grows aba 
<m the ground, in leaf- mould and in other rubbish,, arad 
then the stems become constricted here and there arod 
root at the place. The leaves remain fixed in a line 
with the rachis,, not at all spreading, and their co-nvolute 
condition gives them a very narrow stiff and sharp 
appearance. 
General distribution — Cuba, Porto Rico, Guatemala 
and Nicaragua. 
8. Lycopodium reflexum, Lam.— FT. Brasil, p. 109. Gr. FT. B. W. 
Ind. p. 147. Plumier t. 166. L. reversum, Presl. — Branches erecl, from £-i£ 
ft. high, repeatedly dichotomous, close and parallel, strong and rather 
stoutish,, ribbed. Leaves plain-edged or faintly serrated, reflexed, \ in, 
1. £rd, £ li. w., broadest at the rather rounded base, linear.subulate, 
