330 CRYPTOGAMIA— FILICES. Lycopodium. 



O. vulgatum. Linn. Sp. PL 1518. Willd. v.o. 58. FL Br. 1 J 06. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 2. 1. 108. Hook. Lond. t. 78. Scot. p. 2. 158. Boll. 

 Fil. 2. t.3. R. Dan. t. 147. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 9. 18. Ehrh. 

 Crypt. 171. Bauh.Pin.3o4. Plum.Fil.pref.36.t.B.f.5. Moris. 

 V. 3. 595. sect. 14. t. a, at the bottom. 



O. n. 1 685. Hall. Hist. r. 3. 5. 



Ophioglossura. Raii Syn. 128. Trag. Hist. 323. f. Fuchs. Hist. 

 577.f. Ic.332.f. Matth.Valgr. v.l. 543./. Camer.Epit. 364./. 

 Ger. Em. 404./. 



In moist pastures. 



Perennial. May. 



Root rather deep in the ground, with horizontal clustered fibres. 

 Herb very smooth, about a span high, of a deeper green than 

 the Botrychium. The stalk pale,tapering downward, Leo/ in- 

 variably solitary, ovate, rather variable in breadth, nearly up- 

 right. Spike stalked, pointed, more or less elevated above 

 the leaf, sometimes double, or lobed at the base, as Morison's 

 figures show. 



477. LYCOPODIUM. Club-moss. 



Linn. Gen. 561. Juss. 12. Fl. Br. 1108. Lam. t. 872. Dill. Muse. 



441. 

 Selaginoides. Dill. Muse. 460. 

 Lycopodioides. Dill. Muse. 462. 

 Selago. Dill. Muse. 435. 



Nat. Ord. Musci. Linn. 56. Juss. 4, spurii. Lycopodmece. 

 Svv. Syn. Fil. 173. Br. Prodr. 164. 



Caps, axillary, solitary, sessile, roundish, slightly com- 

 pressed, of 2 equal valves, and 1 cell, bursting verti- 

 cally. Seeds numerous, chaffy, very minute. 



Some species produce, besides these proper capsules, others 

 with 2 or 3 tumid valves, containing several, Mr. Brown 

 says from 1 to 6, globose bodies, whose real nature has 

 not been ascertained, and which may possibly be g^^ffzwzdT, 

 like those of viviparous flowers. Mr. Joseph Fox, late 

 of Norwich, and Mr. Lindsay of Jamaica, have proved 

 the chaffy seeds above-mentioned to be really seeds., and 

 have raised abundance of plants from them. See Tr. 

 of Linn. Soc. v.2. 313 — 315. This fact seems to have 

 escaped Dr. Wahlenberg, who has several excellent re- 

 marks on the subject, in his Fl. Lapp. 290 — 293. L'-n- 

 ngeus took the capsides for anthers. 



The habit of this genus is peculiar, more resembling Mosses 

 than Ferns. Stem mostly branched, either upright or 



