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OPHIOGLOSSALES 
Ophioglossum oulgatum, L. A=old plant sprung as an adventitious bud from the 
root (a-6); from its stem have sprung further roots (c-d@ and e-/), from one of which again 
an adventitious bud (4) has arisen: g=the leaf for the next vegetative period, still un- 
folded ; 7=an abortive spike attached to expanded leaf. (After Stenzel.) A=an old 
plant with one sterile and one fertile leaf. C and 2 show form of leaf, with spike, and 
/) the venation. /, G, H=details of spike. /=Ofhioglossum vulgatum var. polyphylla 
A. Br. The figures 4-D and / are half the natural size. From Rabenhorst’s A77ft. 
Flora. 
