102 LYCOPODIACEAE. | Lycopodium. 
6. L. laterale R. Br. Prodr. (1810) 165.—Rhizome long, stout, white, 
creeping, much branched. Stems numerous, erect or decumbent at the base, 
424 in. high, stout or slender, simple or sparingly branched, the branches 
erect, cylindric, pale-green, sometimes tinged with reddish-brown, leafy from 
the base. Leaves close-set, spreading all round or the upper ascending, 
4-1 in, long, subulate-lanceolate, acuminate, decurrent at the base, firm but 
hardly coriaceous; midrib evident; margins revolute. Spikes 2-8 to a branch, 
lateral or sometimes terminal on very short leafy shoots, sessile, simple, 
erect, 4-2 in. long, oblong, obtuse, often brown or reddish-brown. Bracts 
imbricated, spreading at maturity, broadly ovate, suddenly narrowed into 
a rather long acuminate point} margins jagged—A. Cunn. Precur. (1836) 
n. 156; Raoul Choix (1846) 37; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. ti (1855) 53; Handb. 
N.Z. Fl. (1864) 389; Benth. Fl. Austral. vii (1878) 675; Bak. Fern Alhes 
(1887) 28; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns (1882) 106; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 
1037. L. consimile Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi (1884) 348. 
NortH AND SoutH IsLanps, CHatHam Istanps: .Abundant in swampy or peaty 
ground throughout. Sea-level to 2500 ft. 
Also found in Australia, from Queensland to Victoria, and in New Caledonia. 
7. L. ramulosum 7’. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xi (1879) 456, t. 19B.— 
Rhizome creeping, branched. Stems 2-9 in. long, prostrate or procumbent, 
usually much branched and densely intermatted, but sometimes lax and 
open ; branches ascending at the tips, pale-green, often tinged with reddish, 
leafy throughout. Leaves rather close, spreading or ascending, about 
lin. long, subulate-lanceolate, mucronate, decurrent at the base, keeled, 
firm but scarcely coriaceous, quite entire. Spikes solitary and sessile at 
the end of short leafy branchlets, sometimes terminating the main branches ; 
occasionally the branches are so much reduced that the spike becomes 
lateral as in L. laterale, 1-4 in. long, oblong, obtuse, brown or reddish-brown. 
Bracts imbricated, ascending, broadly ovate, abruptly acuminate or cuspidate, 
coriaceous ; margins entire or slightly toothed.—Bak. Fern Allies (1887) 
25: Thoms. N.Z. Ferns (1882) 105; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 1038 ; 
Hl. N.Z. FI. ui (1914) t. 250. 
Soutn Isnanp: Nelson—Vicinity of Westport, W. Townson! Westland—Very 
abundant in sphagnum bogs, J. #. Holloway! near Hokitika, W. Tipler ; Kumara, J. W. 
Brame! Okarito, A. Hamilton! SrmwartIstanp: Paterson’s Inlet, 7. Kirk! plentiful, — 
Cockayne ! Usually in open peaty land or in swampy woods. Sea-level to 3000 it. 
More closely allied to the Australian LZ. diffuswm than to any other species, 
principally differing, as Mr. Baker has remarked, in its entirely terminal spikes, whereas 
in L. diffusum they are frequently lateral. In its usual state it is easily separated 
from LD. laterale by its densely branched habit of growth and by the procumbent or 
prostrate stems. 
8. L. Drummondii Spring. Monog. Lycop. ii (1848) 35.—Main stem 
creeping over the surface of the ground and producing copious roots, more 
or less branched, 3-6in. long or even more, putting up here and there 
distant rigidly erect fertile branches 4-Sin. high. Leaves of the main 
stem uniform, crowded, dark-green, ascending, imbricate, linear-lanceolate, 
acuminate, quite entire, $in. long; midrib faint; texture firm. Leaves 
of the fertile branches not so closely placed, erecto-patent. Spikes 
variable in length, 1-3in. or even more. Bracts deltoid with a long 
cuspidate point, erecto-patent or the lower spreading, greenish-yellow.— 
Bak. Fern Allies (1887) 25; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 1038. LL. caroli- 
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