Botrychium.| LYCOPODIACEAE. 641 
= non trees. The «Laukahi» of the natives, who employ an infusion of the 
her medy against cough. — Extends from Polynesia through tropical Asia and 
hirer We re 
2. BOTRYCHIUM, Sw. 
Fertile portion divided, paniculaeform. Sporangia free, sessile, arranged 
in a row on each side of the rib of the leaf-segments, splitting transversely 
into two valves. Sterile frond pinnate or ternately eee with free 
veins. Rhizome under groun 
Geographical range as before. 
1. B. subbifoliatum, Brack. Fil. U.S. E. Ep. 317, tab. 44.— Rhizome fleshy, 
ovoid, carrying one or two fronds. Frond 10—20‘ high, the fertile portion 
separating from the sterile 1—2!'/2' above the rhizome. Sterile frond on 
a stalk of 4—7‘, fleshy, quite flaccid when dry, deltoid in outline, 4—6‘ 
X 6—8', piece obtuse. Pinnae and pinnules catadromou 
cuneate, oblong or obovate, 3-5” broad, dentato-serrate near the apex 
or incised in the largest forms. Stalk of fertile frond longer than the 
whole sterile frond, the panicle 3—5’, tripinnate, open. Spores ni aaae 
su anise are granular. — A small central horseshoe-shaped fib. 
fascicle in stipes of the frond. pees cells with straight une 
coats « f Seas Hook. Synops. Fil. p. 448. — B. ternatum, var. Austral- 
asiaticum, Milde, Fil. Eur. et Atlant. 
in deep for u! — Molokai! W. Maui! 
iaats Combines the "veat ee! B. 
separation of both eee portions which prevai in B. terna 
never Ser and — west has a longer stalk than the first one on the other side. 
Nat. name: «Makou 
Orper XCVIL. LYCOPODIACEAE. 
Spore-cases or capsules (sporangia) sessile or nearly so at the base of 
ordinary leaves (apparently axillary) or r of changed bractlike leaves which 
saa a + terminal ae The sporangia are either of two kinds on the 
the spores of which aks monoecious pro 
moss-like, with a dichotomous stem. Leaves giscaohe persi 
1-nerved, sometimes reduced to minute scales. 
Hillebrand, Flora of the Hawaiian Islands. 
us ‘italia: 
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