Li ■ OPODAI 



I -» ' OPODIAI i. I 





Okder XXI.— XYCOPOD] \< I i 



us. 



181 lU. (1824); M :rtim Ir. \ 



1816); -i .'. Bn ttffn. in Diet. Clou 



Gen \: ■ 



DiAQNoaia.—LycopodalAcrog< nt, with 1-3 llary spore-ccues, a 



Usually moss-like plants, with creeping stems and imbricated leaves, tl 

 one wlid cord of annular vess Is, or of a reticulated column of such \> - 

 ; l.\ cellular tissue; or stemless plants, with erect subulate leai 

 eorm. - US-celled, axillary, sessile, either bursting l'\- disl 



indehiscent, and containing • ither minute 

 powderj i . or spon at the 



apex with three minute 

 i - upon their proper in) 

 gularly tuber 



Intermediate a- it w< re betwi 

 Coniferse on the one hand, and I 

 M ssi - on die other ; relat< d to I 

 those tribes in die want ol sexual .. 

 and in the abund 

 tained in th< ir axis : to : ; 



. 

 ami t.i the last in thi ir whol 



ncdy characl 

 their reproduction. I 



rally considered to b 

 which are axillar} and 

 1 to 3 regularly di hisci 

 taining a powdery substance, th< 

 much larger in size, which bavi 

 germinate. In conformity v'nh tl 

 that all plan! 



i .\i.vi. that doctrine have found anthers in tl 



and pistils in the latter ; but, 

 this opinion is entirely conjectural, and founded upon do .lit-.. | 

 we read) know i-, thai the larger.bodies '1" germinate, and, it' 

 now, the powdery particles grow also. He says he has a i n thi m. 1 think ii 

 to be doubted thai the latter are the abortive Btateof the former. 1 

 quite a different view of the matter, and 

 i Is the larger bodies as Antheridia, 

 while the smaller hi 



B >t. AbbilcLfasc. I. t. 4.) Accord- 

 ing to Salisbury, in the / n Fran- 

 . vol. 12. tab. 19, Lycopodium 

 denticulatum emits two cotyledons upon 

 germinating ; but, supposing this observa- 

 which requires confirmation, t" 1<.- 

 exact,iit is much more probable thai the 

 little scales bo emitted are primordial 

 s than analogous to cotyledons. The 

 genus Phylloglossum is rem arkablefor hav- 

 ing the foliage, and mode <>t' growth of 

 l- • - combined with the fructification of a Lye 



Fig. XI. vi. - 1. Bembardia dlehotoma ; -. »ero«i 



annotinuin ; 5 il ise, with U 



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