Herveyanm* 



N- O. Ophioglossese 



TAB* CCLXIIL 



Ophioglossum Bergianum. 



Pusillum, scapis nudis (!), frondibus radicalibus linearibus 



angustissimis subcarnosis, radice fasciculata. 

 O. Bergianum. Schlecht. Adumbr. PL p. 10. Kunze, AcoL Afr, 



Austr. p. 7. 

 Hab. At the base of the Lion's Mountain, Cape of Good Hope. 



Bergius. Near the same locality. Hon. W. H. Harvey. 



This pretty and very distinct species of Ophioglossum was 

 detected by Bergius at the Cape, and described by Schlechten- 

 dal : and though not seen (as it appears) by the indefatigable 

 collectors, Drege, and Ecklon, and Zeyher, it was nevertheless 

 discovered by my lynx-eyed friend, Mr Harvey. Indeed, he sus- 

 pects it not to be of rare occurrence, though being very small and 

 growing in a scattered manner it is easily overlooked. ^' Its 

 whole appearance," Mr Harvey observes, " led me, when first I 

 espied it, to fancy I had found a very simplified Aroideous 

 plant." 



Fig. 1. Spike of capsules i-^magmjied. 



