154 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [ Lycopodiacee. 
or trichotomously branched spike of capsules, with unilateral branches. Pinnules lobed and crenate, blunt, ob- 
scurely veined; costa, stipes, and rachis glabrous or pubescent or woolly. Capsules globose, separate from one 
another, distichously arranged on the branches of the spike, each bursting transversely. Spores very minute, 
three-lobed, or of three connate spheres. (Name Borpus, a cluster ; from the branched clusters of capsules.) 
1. Botrychium Virginianum (Sw. Syn. Fil. 171); glabrum v. pubescens, scapo subradicali, fronde 
trichotome divisa, segmentis bipinnatifidis lobatis crenatisque.—/77. N. Zeal. ii. 50. B. australe, Br. Prodr. 
164. Osmunda ternata, Thunb. Jap. p. 329. t. 32. (Gunn, 30.) (Tas. CLXIX. B.) 
Has. Moist shaded places, Gunn.—(v. v.) 
DisrRIB. South-eastern Australia, New Zealand, Himalaya Mountains, Norway, America. 
Frond trichotomous, with pinnatifid or bipinnatifid segments, which are lobed or crenate.— PraATE CLXIX. B. 
Fig. 1, capsules; 2, spores :— magnified. 
2. Botrychium Lunaria (Sw. Syn. Fil. 171); glabrum, fronde pinnata, pinnis lunatis.—/7. Antaret. 
ii. 550; Eng. Bot. t. 318; Hook. Gen. Fil. t.47 A. (Gunn, 29, 1557.) 
Has. Grassy places, meadows, etc. ; common, ascending to 4000 feet, Gunn.—(v. v.) 
Disrris. Victoria, Fuegia, and throughout the north-temperate and subarctic zones. (A native of 
Britain.) 
A smaller plant than B. Virginianum, with a simply pinnate frond of rounded, rhomboid, or lunate pinne, with 
radiating veins. 
Nat. Orb. II. LYCOPODIACEA, DC. 
Gen. I. PHYLLOGLOSSUM, Kunze. 
Capsule in spicam bracteatam pedunculatam disposite, axillis bractearum sessiles, reniformes, 2-locu- 
lares, 2-valves, rima verticali transverse dehiscentes, sporis minutissimis trigonis farctee.—Folia omnia radi- 
calia, pauca lineari-subulata, teretia. Radix tuberosa ; tuberibus didymis, Orchideis referentibus. 
A very remarkable plant, discovered almost contemporaneously by M. Preiss at Swan River, Mr. Gunn in 
Tasmania, and by myself in New Zealand. —Whole plant quite glabrous, rather fleshy, 1-3 inches high. Root of 
two ovoid tubers, quite like that of an Orchis, with long simple fibres from the crown. Leaves few, terete, subu- 
late, grass-green, erect, rising from the tubers of the present year. Stem, scape, or peduncle solitary, erect, terete, 
rising from among the leaves, bearing a small terete spike of imbricating, trigonous, pedicelled scales. Capsules, 
like those of Lycopodium, placed in the axils of the scales. (Name from $vAXov, a leaf, and yAwooa, a tongue.) 
1. Phylloglossum Drummondii (Kunze in Bot. Zeit. 724, cum ic. xylog.). Hook. Ic. Plant. 
t. 908; PA Zeal. ii. 51. Lycopodium Sanguisorba, Spring, Monog. Lycop. pt. 2. p. 36. (Gunn, 1560.) 
Has. Georgetown, Gunn.—(v. v. 
Disrris. South-western Australia, New Zealand. 
Gen. II. TMESIPTERIS, Bernh. 
Capsule solitariee ad axillam folii furcati sessiles, oblongee, coriaceze, bilobee, lobis divaricatis subacutis, 
bivalves, rima verticali dehiscentes. Spore minutissime, oblonge, curvee.—Frons pendula, coriacea, foliosa. 
Stipes angulatus. Folia álterna, verticalia, plana, costata, enervia, obtusa, mucronata, basi decurrentia, 
fertilia stipitata biloba (seu didyma). 
A remarkable genus, containing only one species.—Pronds leafy, pendulous, flaccid, elongated, simple or 
. dichotomously branched, 6 inches to 2 feet long. Stipes angled. Leaves vertical, decurrent, oblong or ensiform, 
