TAB. CIX. 



LYCOPODIUM TETRAGONUM 



FILICES. 



Lyco 



podineji. Swarlz, Br., Kaulf. Stachyoptebides. Willd. 



Gen. Char. LYCOPODIUM. Linn 



Capsula uniloculares, axillares, sessiles ; aliae bivalves 



farina repletae ; aliae bi-trivalves, corpusculis 1 — 6, globo 



B 



Lycopodium tetrag 



folii 



quadrifariam arcte imbricatis ovatis subacutis concavis carinatis 



ciliatis, capsulis axillaribus, caule adscendente dichotomo ramoso. 



Hab. Prope verticem montis Pichincha,, Andium Peruvianarum. D. Prof. Gul. Jameson 



Caidis basi decumbens, demum erectus, ramosus, ramis dichotomis, ubique foliosus. 



Folia arcte quadrifariam imbricata, erecta, ovata, sessilia, subbreviter acuminata, intus concava, 



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carinata, flavo-virescentia, rubedine tincta, margine ciliata : fructifera paululum magis acuminata 

 Capsulce axillares, versus apicem ramorum, reniformes, bivalves, flavse. 

 Semina minuta, trigona, semper ternatim in unum corpus congesta, demum libera. 

 Fig. 1. Folium caulinum. f. 2. Folium fructiferum. f. 3. Semina: — magn. auct. 



dorso 



No less than 140 species of Lycopodium are enumerated in Sprengel's edition of the Species 



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Plantarum, with none of which will the plant here described accord. It inhabits almost the highest 

 summits of Pichincha, and was communicated to us, along with many other rarities from the same 

 mountain, by Professor W. Jameson. 







