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OPHIOGLOSSALES 



FIG. 235. 



Ophioglossitm vulgatum. L. >!=old plant sprung as an adventitious bud from the 

 root (a-b) ; from its stem have sprung further roots (c-d and <'-f), from one of which again 

 an adventitious bud (A) has arisen : ^ = the leaf for the next vegetative period, still un- 

 folded ; /=an abortive spik< attarhed to expanded leaf. (After Stenxel.) ^ an "M 

 plant with one sterile and one fertile leaf. C ami /) sln>\v form of leaf, with spike, and 

 / tin- venation. /', G, H = details of spike. J ' = OphioglosM<in 7'n/gatniii V9x.polyph.ylla 

 A. I Jr. The figures A-D and / are half the natural .si/e. From Rabenhorst's Kryf>t. 

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