CRYPTOGAMIA— FILICES. Lycopodlum. 317 



O. vulgatum. Linn. Sp. PL 1518. mild. v. 5. 58. Fl. Br. 1 lOG. 



Engl. Bot. V. 2. /. 108. Hook. Lond. t. 78. Scot.p. 2. 158. Bolt. 



Fil. 2. t. 3. Fl. Dan. t. M7. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 9. 18. Ehrh. 



Crypt.171. Bauh. Pin. 3^)4. Plum. Fd.pref.36.t.B.f.5. Moris. 



V.3. 595, sect. \4. t. 5, ot the bottom. 

 O. n. 1685. Hall. Hist. v. S. 5. 

 Ophioglossum. Baii Syn. 128. Trag. Hist. 323. f. Fuchs. Hist. 



577./. Ic. 332./. MattIi.Valgr.v.\.543.f. Canier. Epit.36A.f. 



Ger. Em. 404. f. 



In moist pastures. 



Perennial. May. 



Root rather deep in the ground, with horizontal clustered fibres. 

 Herb very smooth, about a span high, of a deeper green than 

 the Botrychium. The stalk pale, tai)ering downward. Leaf'xn- 

 variably solitary, ovate, rather variable in breadth, nearly up- 

 right. Spike stalked, pointed, more or less elevated above 

 the leaf, sometimes double, or lobed at the base, as Morison's 

 figures show. 



477. LYCOPODIUM. Club-moss. 



Linn. Gen. 561. Juss. 12. Fl. Br. 1 108. Lam. t. 872. DHL Muse. 

 441. 



Selaginoides. Dill. Muse. 460. 



Lycopodioides. Dill. Muse. 462. 



Selago. DHL Muse. 435. 



Nat. Ord. Musci. Linn. 56. Juss. 4, spurit. Lycopodinece. 

 Sw. Syn. Fil. 173. Br. Prodr. 164. 



Caps, axillary, solitary, sessile, roundish, slightly com- 

 pressed, of 2 equal valves, and 1 cell, bursting verti- 

 cally. Seeds numerous, chaffy, very minute. 



Some species produce, besides these proper capst<Z^5, others 

 with 2 or 3 tumid valves, containing several, Mr. Brown 

 says from 1 to 6, globose bodies, whose real nature has 

 not been ascertained, and which may possibly be gemmic, 

 like those of viviparous flowers. Mr. Joseph Fox, late 

 of Norwich, and Mr. Lindsay of Jamaica, have proved 

 the chaffy seeds above mentioned to be really seeds, and 

 have raised abundance of plants from them. See Tr. 

 of Linn. Soc. v. 2. 313—315. This fact seems to have 

 escaped Dr. Wahlenberg, who has several excellent re- 

 marks on the subject, in his FL Lapp. 290—293. Lin- 

 naeus took the capsides for anthers. 

 The habit of this genus is peculiar, more resembling Mosses 

 than Ferns. Stem mostly branched, either upright or 



