Hollick: Status of Ophioglossum Alleni L. 213 



Fig. 4. Inner surface, with seeds attached to a late expansion of the 

 midrib. 



Fig. 5. Same, flattened by pressure. 



Fig. 6. Same, with seeds detached. 



Brachyruscus Alleni (Lesquereux) Cockerell 

 Fig. 7. Bull. Torrey Club 49: /. 13, A-D. 1922. 



Ruscus aculeatus Linnaeus 

 Fig. 8. Cladode, natural size, upper surface, showing inflorescence 

 attached to the median nerve; distal end upward. From a cultivated specimen 

 in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden, collected at Montpellier, 

 France. 



Dobinea vulgaris Hamilton 

 Fig. 9. Bract, natural size, upper surface, showing fructification; 

 distal end upward. From a specimen in the herbarium of the New York 

 Botanical Garden, collected in Nepal, India, probably in 1821, by Nathaniel 

 Wallich. 



