104 LYCOPODIACEAE. [ Lycopodium. 
NortH AND SovutrH Is~tanps, CHATHAM ISLANDS, STEWART IsLAND, AUCKLAND 
IsLANDS: From the Great Barrier Island and the Manukau Harbour southwards, but 
often local. Sea-level to 5000 ft. é‘ ds ee alae 
A handsome and distinct species, a slightly different form of which is found 
in Victoria and Tasmania. It is also very closely allied to the South American 
LL. Jussiaei Desv. 
11. L. volubile Forst. f. Prod. (1786) n. 482.—Stems 2-12 ft. long or 
more, branched, scrambling over bushes or rocks, slender, wiry. flexuose, 
with distant minute linear-subulate appressed leaves. Branches numerous, 
leafy, compressed, pinnately or flabellately decompound; branchlets forked, 
the ultimate ones 4-3 in. long, 4-+1in. broad including the leaves. Leaves 
dimorphous, the larger distichously spreading, $-¢1in. long, with a broad 
adnate decurrent base, ascending, lanceolate, strongly falcate, acuminate, 
midrib evident, oblique, texture firm; smaller leaves much reduced in 
size, linear, appressed. Spikes very numerous, 1-4 in. long, #4 in. broad, 
cylindrical, pendulous, arranged in large terminal much-branched panicles 
6-24 in. long. Bracts imbricating, small, not much longer than the sporangia, 
broadly ovate or almost orbicular, suddenly narrowed into an erect subulate 
point.—A. Cunn. Precur. (1836) n. 158; Raoul Choix (1846) 37; Hook. 
and Grev. Ic. Fil. (1829) t. 170; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. ii (1855) 55 ; Handb. 
N.Z. Fl. (1864) 391; Benth. Fl. Austral. vii (1878) 677; Bak. Fern Alles 
(1887) 29; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns (1882) 107; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 
1040. L. D’Urvillei A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. (1832) 60 (not of Bory). 
Krrmapec Istanps, NortH Aanp SoutH IsLtanps, Stewart ISLAND, CHATHAM 
Istanps: Abundant throughout, usually forming entangled masses among low scrub. 
Sea-level to 3000 ft. Waewaekoukou. 
By far the most beautiful species of the genus. It extends to Polynesia, New 
Caledonia, North Australia, the mountains of New Guinea, Java, Borneo, and the 
Malay Peninsula. 
3. TMESIPTERIS Bernh. 
Rhizome long, creeping, much branched; true roots wanting. Stems 
simple or rarely forked, pendulous or ascending, leafy. Leaves vertically 
placed, of two kinds: the foliage-leaves sessile and decurrent, simple and 
entire; the fertile leaves or sporophylls mixed with the foliage-leaves and 
about the same size, shortly petiolate, bipartite. Sporangia (or synangia) 
attached to the petiole of the fertile leaf just below the lobes, boat-shaped 
or spindle-shaped, coriaceous, pointed at both ends, slightly constricted 
about the middle, 2-celled with the septum across the narrow diameter, 
dehiscing longitudinally ; rarely the sporangia are 3-celled or 1-celled. 
Spores minute, oblong, 
A genus consisting of one highly variable species, found in New Zealand, Australia 
and Tasmania, and some of the Pacific islands. By some authors it is split up into 
3 or 4, distinguished mainly by the shape of the apex of the leaf (which I find to be 
variable even in the same individual) and by certain histological details, the constancy 
of which has yet to be established. 
1, T. tannensis Bernh. in Schrad. Journ. Bot. 1 (1800) 131, t. 2.— 
Stems 4-18in. long or more, simple or rarely once or twice forked, usually 
pendulous, slender, naked towards the base. Foliage-leaves rather closely 
placed, 4-lin. long, obliquely oblong or oblong-lanceolate, sessile and 
strongly decurrent at the base, obtuse or truncate or acute at the tip, the 
