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TAB. CXII. 





LYCOPODIUM VARIUM 



FILICES. 



Lycopodineje. Swartz., Br., Kaulf. Stachyopterides. Willd 



Gen. Char. LYCOPODIUM, Linn 



Capsula uniloculares, axillares. sessiles ; alae bivalve 



farina repletae : aliae bi-trivalves, corpusculis 1 — 6, globosis. Br. 



Lycopodium 



caule ramoso, foliis sparsis linearibus decurrentibus integerrimis 



mbricatis 



Brown ; ubi in monte Wellington 





vel patentibus, spicis terminalibus dichotomis simplicibusve, squamis obtusis integerrimis. B 

 Lycopodium varium. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl.p. 165. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 4. p. 12. 

 Hab. In insula Otaheite. Menzies. In insula Van Diemen. 

 legit D. Fraser et communicavit. 



Radix nobis ignota. 



Caulis subpedalis, erectus vel decumbens repetitim dichotome ramosus, basi nudiusculus, dein foliosus. 



Folia numerosa, erecto-patentia, unguiculata, linearia, obtusiuscula, integerrima obscure costata, basi decurrentia, 



coriacea, glabra ; suprema infra spicam ovato-lanceolata, costa dorso magis prominente. Color, siccitate, luteo- 



viridis. 

 Spicce terminales, sessiles, lineares, acute tetragonse, duas vel tres uncias longae, nunc solitariae, plerumque geminae. 

 tama? arcte imbricatae, quaternae, cordatae, obtusae, breves, concavae, dorso obtuse carinatae (nunc lineari- 



Sq 



oblongae). 





Capsula? majusculae, reniformes, glabrae, bivalves. 



Semina pellucida, triangularia. 



Fig. 1. Folium. f. 2. Folium e summitate caulis. f. 3. Squama spicae, cum capsula. f. 4. Squama, a dorso 



visa. f. 5. Squama, intus visa. f. 6. Semina : — magn. auct. 



The learned author of the Prodromus Florce A 



Hollandice has cited two varieties of th 



plant ; the one, " a umbrosum, caulis debilis, folia patentia^ spicaa filiformes, simplices vel divisae, 

 flaccidas, laxiusculae ; squamae oblongo-lineares, capsulis multoties longiores ;" and the other, 





Ipinum, caulis erectus : folia arcte imbricata, opaca 



spicae dichotomae 



g 



squamae ovatae, capsulas vix superantes." We find the plant, indeed, to be very variable in its fructi- 

 fication : some of our specimens, received since the plate was engraved, have the extremity of the 



spike runn: 

 and branch 



g out into a shoot, with sterile scales or leaves^ exactly resembling those of the stem 

 ; • in others, the part bearing the fructification scarcely forms a spike at all : but the 



fructification appears 

 Ic. Fil. /. 30. 



llary; and then the species comes very near the Lycopod. gnidioides 



