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XXIV. On the Germination. of Lycopodium denticulatum, in a 
Letter to the Secretary from Richard Anthony Salisbury, Esq. 
F.R.S. and L.S. 
: Read June 3, 1817. 
Dear Sir, E 
Pnorssson Brorero’s description of the Lycopodium denticu- 
latum agrees so exactly with the plant of which I send you some 
figures, Tan. XIX., that I have nothing to add to it, except that 
I have never found the capsule three-lobed, as he says it is, but 
invariably four-lobed: in some positions, however, it appears 
three-lobed, and he himself mentions that it always contains 
four seeds. | PSU | 
Notwithstanding I have examined many flowering branches, I 
have not been able to detect the manner in which the seeds are 
feecundated, or to find any thing like an Embryo in them, though 
they come up in abundance spontaneously under the parent 
plant, and on the adjacent moist parts of the shelf, where it 
stands in Mr. Joseph Knight's greenhouse. | ! 
The seeds contain at an early period of their formation a' clear 
liquor, which quickly evaporates, and flashes when applied to a 
candle: this liquor soon becomes milky, and is finally converted 
into what appears to me grumous albumen.—I am not certain 
how the seeds are inserted, and believe that I have not yet been 
so lucky as to meet with a single fæcundated seed, though perfect 
in all other respects; for this occurs in Cycas, when there is no 
male plant to foecundate its seeds. In one capsule, in which the 
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