1268 BENGAL PLANTS. [Equisetum. 
A semi-scandent herb, 3-10 feet long. Santal. Buru 
kathom charec’. 
X.—LYCOPODINEA. 
rbs; leaves small in proportion to the stem, not whorled, 
circinate, the fertile not peltate, with sporangia in their axils. 
Spores sometimes all of one kind, producing prothalli which are 
remain attached to the spore; those of the macrospores bearing 
archegonia, those of the microspores bearing antheridia with 
antherozoids. 
Order CLX. LYCOPODIACEZ. 
Herbs, with fibrous roots; rootstock none or, if present, trail- 
ing; stems produced, erect or creeping, alternately dichotomously 
forked with a central bundle of vascular tissue; leaves small, 
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farious ; vernation circinate. Sporangia axillary along the stem 
or aggregated in terminal spikes in the axils of specialised bracts, 
uniform, compressed or turbinate, 1-3-valved, 1-3-celled. Spor 
uniform, globose, granulate, without elaters, usually .with 3 
radiating lines from the apex, rarely with a single line; on the 
ground giving rise to a fleshy prothallus. 
Leaves many, crowded; sporangia orbicular, compressed, 1- celled, 
2-valved . -Lycopodium. 
Leaves few, distant, rudimentar y ; sporangia turbinate, 3-celled, pie: 
Psilo 
1157. Lycopodium Linn. 
Herbs, with erect or prostrate, copiously branching stems: 
leaves small, crowded, 1-nerved, usually uniform and multifarious. 
Sporangia coriaceous, reniform-orbicular, compressed, 1-celled, 
—* by a slit down apex from end to end, placed free and 
in the axils of unaltered leaves all down the stem or aggre 
gated i in terminal, bracteate spikes. Side with 3 lines radiating 
from the apex. 
