Lycopodium setaceum Lam.

OCR>>>8. Lycopodium setaceum Lam. Encyc. Meth. Bot. 3: 653.
1789. (Type from the Antilles and Bourbon ; but Plumier, Fil.
pi. 166, f. B, as well as Dillen, Hist. Muse.//. 36, f. 3, is cited.)
Not L. setaceum Hamilton, 1825.
Lycopodium acerosum Sw. (FI. Ind. Occ. 3 : 1575. 1806 ; type
from Bourbon) may be the same species, since Swartz cites the
same plates as Lamarck and states that Dillen also had it from
the West Indies. Swartz in Syn. Fil. (1806) refers both L. set-
aceum and L. acerosum to L. verticillatum L. fil. (Suppl. 448. 1781 ;
type from Bourbon), but this is described as having “foliis quadri-
fariis,“ which will not apply to the plant of the American tropics.
Since the time of Swartz, the American plant has been referred to
L. verticillatum, probably incorrectly ; at least the name L. setaceum
is the earliest that it is safe to take up in the absence of any
material from Bourbon.*
Range : Cuba ( Wright pjj, Eggers 5173), Jamaica (Jenman),
Martinique (Pere Buss), Haiti (Nash 664), Dominica {Lloyd 342,
697, 808, 810).
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