GardnerimK^, N. O. Lycopotliacefe. 



TAB. CCXXVIIL 



Lycopodium biforme, 



{§ Phlegmaria.) 



Caule gracili repetitim dichotomo pendente, foliis laxis remotis 

 undique insertis subdisticho-patentibus lineari-subulatis inte- 

 gerrimis, nervis subtus paullo prominentibus, capsulis axil- 

 laribus et in spicis elongatis gracilibus dichotome ramosis, 

 bracteis late ovatis brevi-acuminatis capsula minoribus. 

 Hab. Face of a shady rock, at an elevation of about 5000 feet 

 above the level of the sea, on the Organ Mountains. (2d 

 Fern Collection, n. 80). 



This must be referred to the Phlegmaria-gvoup of the Lyco- 

 podiGy of which it is the slenderest species, and with the most 

 lax and distantly inserted foliage, of any known to me. It 

 possesses occasionally the characters of the group *' Capsulis 

 axillaribus/^ that is, the capsules are not unfrequently in the 

 axils of the common leaves of those branches which have not 

 been converted into bracteated spikes. 



Fig. 1. Portion of a plant with axillary capsules: — naL size, 

 / 2. Capsule and bractea from a spike, f, 3. Capsule and 

 bractea from / 1 : — magnijied. 



