M. Miiller on the Development of the Lycopodiacese. 317 



cies, and C. horrens, an exotic insect^ is the type ; under these 

 circumstances I consider that it is sufficient to refer to the ela- 

 borate generic and specific characters given by Schonherr rather 

 than to transcribe them*. 



XXXV. — On the Development of the Lycopodiacese. 

 By Karl MuLLERf. 



[With five Plates.] 



[Conduded from p. 249.] 



c. The morphological import of the spore. Up to the present 

 time it remains doubtful what purpose is served by the anthe- 

 ridium-spore. One person maintains this opinion, another that. 

 This author declares that he has seen it germinate, the other that 

 he has never been able so to do. Kaulfuss (Das Wesen der Far- 

 renkrauter, &c. Leipz. 1827) relates (p. 23) that, first. Fox sowed 

 Lycopodium Selago^ then Lindsay L/ycop, cernuum with success, 

 and that Lycopodium clavatum had sprung up in abundance with 

 Willdenow. With himself it did not succeed, yet the garden- 

 inspector Otto, at Berlin, raised Lycop. pygmceum^ Kaulf., from 

 seed, for several years in succession. The last case however is 

 easily explicable, since the Lye. pygmceum which I know by this 

 name from the hands of the exact Kunze, possesses oophoridia 

 also ; and that these germinate is known. Here therefore we 

 cannot place full dependence even on the assurance of such an 

 authority as Willdenow. 



An observation of Goppert^sJ however is of far greater im- 

 portance from the fact, that it does not merely amount to a confir- 

 mation ; this was beholding young plants produced from the an- 

 theridium-spores of the same Lye. denticulatum, the development 

 of which we have above become acquainted with. His observa- 

 tions were first published in the ' Uebersicht der Arbeiten und 

 Veranderungen der schlesischen Gesellschaft fiir vaterlandische 

 Kultur,^ in the years 1841 and 1845. In the latter the author 

 has also, although imperfectly, furnished illustrations to it. The 

 observations were next published in No. 7 of the literary notices 

 in the 'Flora,^ p. 110, and lastly by Roper (in the 'Flora Meck- 

 lenburg's,^ i. p. 126) . The passage in question is here transcribed 

 verbatim for those who may not have access to any of these 

 books : — 



* Syn. Ins. vii. p. 120,121. 



t From the ' Botanische Zeitung,' Oct. 2, 184C. Translated by Arthur 

 Henfrey, F.L.S.&c. 



I I have only become acquainted with it since the second section was 

 printed. 



