594 



CXr. LYCOPODIACE^. 



PJ 



Moist pastures and In woods. ^8, Petit Port Bay, Guernsev 

 among furze bushes. Mr. Wolsey.— ln removing the curious RM 

 zoglossum Bergianum, Ophioderma pendulum, and Chenoglossa pal 

 mata, from Ophioglossu}n,as Endlicher and Presl have done, we still 

 leave 25 species described in books, belonging to the present o-'enus. It 

 may startle our readers to learn that Dr. Hooker has recen1;Iyi, by a 

 single stroke of the pen, reduced all these to one, namely, 0. vulgatum 

 L. ; and although one of us has been instrumental in creating some 

 of these very species, we are ready, after a careful examination of 

 the great series of specimens in our own Herbarium, from different 

 parts of the world, to acknowledge the correctness of this view. — 

 We find all intermediate gradations from the largest and broadest 

 cordate or ovate sterile fronds to a narrow linear-lanceolate form not 

 5 an inch long. 



2. BoTRYCHiuM Suu Moonwort. (Tab. XL f. 3.) 



Capsules subglobose, sessile, clustered at the margin and on 

 one side of a pinnated rachis, 1-celled, 2-valved, compressed 

 opening transversely. Involucre none.— Veins forked.— l^l^me] 

 Porpfxg, a bunch of grapes; from the appearance of the branched 

 clusters of capsules. 



1. B. Lundria Svv. (common M.) ; frond pinnate usually 



solitary, pinna3 lunate or subflabelliform crenate. OsmundaZ • 

 E. B. t. 318. 



Dry mountain pastures. — Varieties of this are found, with more 

 than one frond upon a stalk, and with the pinnules laciniate and even 

 pinnatifid. Smith, in E, Bot., gives ^. Lunaria minor ramosa, Raii 

 Syn, p. 129., and L. minor, folds dissectis, Raii Syn. 1. c. ; —the latter he 

 refers to B. rutaceum, Sw. ; a continental plant well figured in 

 Schkuhr Fil. p. 155. f. b. We have not ourselves seen any British 

 Botrychium resembling that figure ; but a woodcut of a supposed B. 

 rntaceum, from the sands of Barry, is given by Mr. Newman, Brit 

 Ferns, ed. 3. p. 324., very much resembling this ; and we possess the 

 same from Canada and the United States, — the B. simplex of Hitch- 

 cock m Silliman's Journal, and Hook, and Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 82 ; nor 

 should we be surprised if this were found to pass into the lar-^er- 

 fronded jGerman B. rutaceum figured by Mr. Newman, 1. c! p. 

 322 ; and they may all yet be mere forms of B. Lunaria. Captain 

 l-armichael communicated specimens to us, which bore capsules on 

 the margms of their lower pinnules. 



Ord. CXI. LYCOPODIACEJi: 



(Tab. XII. f. 1.) 



Fructification sessile, in the axils of leaves or bract 

 sules without a ring, 2— 3-valved. Estivation stra 

 circinnate). 



•^See Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, Part II. Flora [of New Zealand, vol. ii. 



