Lycopodium. | LYCOPODIACEAE, 103 
nianum Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. ii (1855) 54; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 
390; Benth. Fl. Austral. vii (1878) 675; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns (1882) 106 
(not of Zinn.). L. serpentinum Kunze in Pl. Preiss. 11 108. 
NortH ISLAND : Auckland—Peaty swamp near the outlet of Lake Tongonge, 
near Kaitaia, North Cape district, R. H. Matthews! H. B. Matthews! H. Carse! _ 
The only locality known for the species in New Zealand, and no doubt the one in 
which it was originally discovered by Mr. Colenso in 1839. It is also a native of 
Australia, and is very closely allied to the tropical L. carolinnanum Linn., principally 
differing in the stem-leaves being all similar, and not dimorphic. 
9. L. fastigiatum R. Br. Prodr. (1810) 165.—Main stem or rhizome 
stout, creeping, subterranean, 6-24in. long or more; primary branches 
rather distant, 3-14 in. long, stout, erect, rigid, often naked below, copiously 
fastigiately branched above; branchlets crowded. Leaves imbricated all | 
round the branches, crowded, spreading and then incurved at the tips, 
4-4 in. long, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute or shortly mucronate, not 
hair-pointed, entire, firm, midrib indistinct. Spikes peduncled, often two 
together, terminating the BOE. branchlets or several in a central panicle, 
?—2 in. long, rarely more, about 4 in. diam., erect, cylindric. Bracts closely 
pabreate broadly ovate at the base; narrowed upwards into a long spread- 
ing or recurved cuspidate “point. —Bak. Fern Allies (1887) 27; Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 1039. LL. clavatum var. magellanicum Hook. f. #1. 
Antarct: 1 (1844) 113; Fl. Nov. Zel. 11 (1855) 54; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 
390; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns (1882) 106 (but not of Swartz). L. clavatum 
var. fastigiatum Benth. Fl. Austral. vii (1878) 675. lL. curvifolium and 
L. scopulosum Col. am Trans. N.Z. Inst. xx (1888) 234 and 235. 
L. decurrens Col. l.c. xxviii (1896) 617. 
North Istanp: Hilly and mountainous localities from Cape Colville to Cook 
Strait, but local to the north of the East Cape. Sour Istanp, CHatHam ISLANDS, 
STEWART ISLAND, AUCKLAND AND CAMPBELL ISLANDS, ANTIPODES ISLAND: Abundant 
throughout.  Sea-level to 5000 ft. 
Also in Victoria and Tasmania, and very close to some forms of the widely 
distributed L. clavatum Linn., from which it is chiefly distinguished by the absence of 
hair-points to the leaves and their entire margins. 
10. L. seariosum forst. f. Prodr. (1786) n. 484.—Main stems prostrate 
or creeping, stout, branched, 1-3 ft. long; branches numerous, rigid, erect 
or ascending, copiously divided, 3-12 in. long; branchlets flattened, }-4 in. 
broad including the leaves. Leaves of the main stem inserted all round, 
appressed, lanceolate ‘or subulate-lanceolate, with acute scarious tips; of 
the branchlets dimorphous, the larger distichously spreading and flattened, 
about % in. long, ascending, much decurrent at the base, lanceolate or ovate- 
lanceolate, acute or acuminate, falcate, coriaceous, dark-green or yellow- 
green ; smaller leaves on one side of the branchlets subulate-lanceolate, 
appressed, usually with scarious tips. Spikes solitary at the end of the 
branchlets, 1-2 in, long, about 4 in. diam., on long or short peduncles clothed 
with appressed imbricate feaoss Bracts closely imbricated, broadly ovate 
at the base, narrowed upwards into a long spreading or recurved scarious 
tip; margins often toothed.—Hook. Ic. Plant. (1854) t. 966; Raoul Choia 
(1846) 37; Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i (1844) 112; Fl. Nov. Zel. 11 (1855) 55 ; 
Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 390; Benth. FI. Austral. vii (1878) 676; Bak. Fern 
Allies (1887) 29; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns (1882) 107; Cheesem. ‘Man. N.Z. 
Fl. (1906) 1039. L. Lessonianum A. Rich. Fl. Now. Zel. (1832) 59; 
A. Cunn. Precur. (1836) n. 152. L. distans Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xx 
(1888) 236. a 
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