TAM. CLXXUVIE 
LYCOPODIUM OVALIFOLIUM. 
FILICES.—LxvcoropiriNEXE. Swartz, Br., Kaulf. | SrAcuvorrznipzs. Jilld. 
GEN. CHag.. LYCOPODIUM, Linn. Capsule uniloculares, axillares, sessiles; a/ie bivalves, 
farina replete; alie 2—3-valves, corpusculis 1—86-globosis. ZB». 
LycoropiuMw ovalifolium ; repens dichotome ramosum, foliis distichis ovalibus uninerviis nitidis in- 
tegerrimis, stipulis conformibus paululum falcatis apiculatis, spicis terminalibus cylindraceis, 
squamis cordato-acuminatis inferne ciliatis. 
Han. In oris occidentalibus Americze Septentrionalis. Dom. Douglas. 
Caules palmares et ultra, inferne decumbentes, repentes, superne ramis repetitim dichotomis adscendentes. 
Folia approximata, pallide flavo-viridia, nitida, rigidiuscula, disticha, alterna, fere exacte ovalia, patentia, paululum 
concava, margine omnino integerrima, uninervia, nervo ante apicem evanescente. S/zpulc foliis conformes 
sed paululum minores, subfalcatze, uninerves, integerrimze, apice mucronatze. 
Spice terminales numerose, cylindraceze, flavo-fuscee. 
Squamce quadrifariam insertee, cordato-acuminatze, integerrimee, carinatze, subpatentes, inferne ad marginem utrin- 
que ciliata. 
Capsula reniformis, flava, bivalvis, seminibus vel granulis minutis exacte sphzericis repleta. 
Fig. 1. Ramulus ultimus, cum spica. f. 92. Folia et stpule. f 3.4. Squams capsulifere. f. 5. Semina:— 
magn. auct. | 
The stipulated distichous-leaved species of Luycopodium. ave so numerous and so difficult to be 
determined, without submitting them to the most careful examination and comparison, that it 
behoves us to, introduce a new species with great caution.  Ás far, however, as our opportunities 
will permit us to judge, the present may certainly be reckoned among those hitherto undescribed. 
Its nearest affinity is, perhaps, the West Indian L. denudatum of Willdenow ; but neither the leaves 
nor the stipules can be called * acute," nor the spikes * short." ( 
