TAB. CXXXI. 
LYCOPODIUM TAXIFOLIUM. 
FILICES.—LvcoropixEE. Swartz, Br., Kaulf.  SrAcHvorrknipzs. Willd. 
G£zN. CHag.. LYCOPODIUM, Linn. Capsule uniloculares, axillares, sessiles ; a/ie bivalves, 
farina replete ; a/ie 2—3-valves, corpusculis 1—96, globosis. Br. 
LycoroptuM acifolium ; caule dichotome ramoso, foliis subsexfariis patulis lineari-oblongis acu- 
tissimis integerrimis planis, capsulis in axillis foliorum consimilium terminalium. 
Lycopodium taxifolium. Swartz FI. Ind. Occ. p. 1573. Syn. Fil. p.175. Willd. Sp. PI. v.5. 
p.48. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 4. p.21. 
Has. In truncos arborum muscis repletos in montibus summis Jamaice, Swartz.; unde etiam 
miserunt Bancroft, M.D., Files, et Lunan, M.D. In insula Sancte: Helenam. Swartz. 
Hispaniola. 7Z';//d. 
Hadix e fibris ramosis, fuscis, caespitosis. 
Caules pendentes, pedales et ultra, repetitim dichotomi, ubique foliosi. 
Folia subsexfariam inserta, patula, sex ad octo lineas longa, sesquilineam ad duas lineas lata, lineari-oblonga, 
acutissima, ad basin angustiora, sessilia, rigido-membranacea, margine integerrima, plana, supra medio 
obscure canaliculata, subtus nervo angusto prominente notata: suprema his omnino similia seque patula, sed 
paulo minora. 
Capsule majuscule, exacte reniformes, bivalvz, flavae. 
Semina numerosa, parva, triangularia. 
Fig. 1. Folium caulinum. f.2. Folium fructiferum. f. 3. Semina :—magn. auct. 
The species most nearly allied to L. tazifolium is, doubtless, the LL. &nidioides of the Cape and 
the Mauritius; which has, however, a much more rigid habit, with shorter and more obtuse, more 
erect and imbricating leaves, the upper capsuliferous ones having a tendency to form a spike. 
