Lti LYCOPODIi 



Tin) gener J Lo 

 long b< • a, that the larg pon i ipable of pri 



i, Dr. ( '. MUUer published a memoir, of wb 

 i nits : — 



The large spon re or l< globular bo 



in which thej are in contact with the oophorid; thus, w 

 BphericaJ Burface, the inner Bide b I or four trian 

 uoidea and L. denticulatum. Tiny p 



I of DumerouB cells, the cavities of which at 

 deposits of secondary lay< . 

 on its outer - 



cuticle, capable of being separated from the Bubjacent cells. The in 

 Bpore is usually perfectly Btructureless, and no! very firmly i 

 coat. In L. gracillimum Dr. Miiller observed below the out 

 composed of a layer of rather large parenchymatous cells, w 



ited; and as there « membrane within I 



layer aa the proper inner coat. This ration is important in r> 



aciee between Muller'tj statements and those of Mettenius, to I 

 presently. 'I tj of the spore is filled with granular mucil 



W hen the >i ■ teed in favourable cir 



Bwell up, and if the contents mined with the mien 



will Boon be found to have become developed in the mucilage Tl 

 commences at a determinate spot upon the inn 

 firmly applied that they appear blended with this inner membrane. T 



- on till an obtuse conical process is developed, which breaks through tl 

 I. coal of 1 1 1 « - Bpore, and this process is n cognized as the germinal body or I 

 tsorper, corresponding to the pro-embryo of the other Cryptogams. From ti. 

 at this period does not by any means fill the cavity of the Bpore with its 1< 

 an ovate process is produced, at first obliquely di ip wards, I 



future >tem, and a conical pi kin,' the opposite direction i 



cle. On the ascendii distinction ran booh be obsen 



terminal bud, a little oval body, and a short thread-like Btem on which it ia 

 ;i^ the bud opens, the leaves appear in j 



With respect to tin- import of the spores, Miiller says : " Up to the present tii 

 remains doubtful what purpose is Berved by the anther 

 maintain one opinion, One author 



another that he has n< ver been able to do bo. Kaulfuss relates th it 



and Lindsay L. cernuum with success, and that L. clavatum sprung up 

 abundantly with Willdenow. With himself it did not succeed; but I 

 inspector, Otto of Berlin, raised L. pygmseum Beveral j 

 The last case, however, is readily explicable, since L. pygnucum | 



ipert Btatee that he has Been the development of young plants from anl 

 in L. denticulatum. Miiller, however, doubts whether tl 

 Goppert never mentions aeeing a young plant actu illy adherent I 

 and the young plant he figures closely r< Bembles a Pissidena 1; 

 raise plants from antherid spores, Miiller in every case failed. Be 

 however, that they may be capable of g< rminataon, especiallly a 

 appear to be devoid of oophoritis. 



In 1849 appeared M. Il>>t: notice on the fm 



higher Cryptogamia, in which he indicated thi 

 B ella, of a number of peculiar organs, composed oi four : 



enclosing a large globular eel] in the centre. In oneof th< 

 young plant ia produced 



In 1860, Mettenius published ai on the I 



Cryptogams, and in this is to be found a full d 

 Bofmeister, but overlooked by C. Miiller. A< tot 



oi Selaginella involvens p 



early stagi of the germination, the inner layer ft 

 inner coat, form the walls of a globular b 

 enclosed by the outermost membrane. Tl 

 outer membrane immediately under the point of j 

 separating the Battened surfaces of the inn 

 until its walls come to be applied 

 large cavity. Then between the two layers 

 beneath the point of junction of the three exfo rn i 

 commences, producing a flattened plat 



