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ISOETACEAE. 



Vol. I. 



ii. Isoetes Gravesii A.A. Eaton. 

 Grave's Quillwort. Fig. 128. 



Isoetes Gravesii A. A. Eaton, Fernwort 

 Papers 14. 1900. 



Polygamous; leaves 20-150, s'-n' 

 long and i"-ii" -in diameter, erect, 

 reddish or dark green; sporanges 

 with an abundance of light brown 

 cells, J-i covered by the velum; 

 macrospores 35i-4°5 ^ in diameter, 

 the upper hemisphere depressed, 

 covered with short truncate single 

 columns ; microspores 22-30 M long, 

 high-cristate or tuberculate. 



Edges of ponds and streams ; Massa- 

 chusetts and Connecticut. 



12. Isoetes melanopoda J. Gay. Black-based 

 Quillwort. Fig. 129. 



/. melanopoda J. Gay, Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 11 : 102. 1864. 

 Terrestrial with a subglobose deeply 2-lobed trunk. 

 Leaves 15-60, slender, erect, bright green, with a black- 

 ish shining base, 5'-i8' long, triangular, bearing stromata 

 throughout, well developed peripheral bast-bundles, thick 

 dissepiments and small air cavities within ; ligule tri- 

 angular, awl-shaped; sporange mostly oblong, spotted, 

 with a narrow velum ; polygamous ; macrospores 250- 

 400 M in diameter, with low more or less confluent 

 tubercles, often united into worm-like wrinkles, or 

 almost smooth; microspores 23-30 m long, spinulose. 



In moist prairies and overflowed fields, Illinois to Iowa 

 Oklahoma and California. 



13. Isoetes Butleri Engelm. Butler's Quillwort. 

 Fig. 130. 



Isoetes Butleri Engelm. Coult. Bot. Gaz. 3: 1. 1878. 



Terrestrial from a subglobose trunk. Leaves 8-60, 

 bright green, paler at the base, triangular, 3-7' long, 

 bearing numerous stomata, and with well developed 

 peripheral bast-bundles, thick dissepiments and small 

 air cavities within; sporange usually oblong, spotted; 

 velum very narrow or none; ligule small, triangular; 

 dioecious; macrospores 400-630 /* in diameter, with 

 distinct or confluent tubercles; "microspores 28-34/* 

 long, dark brown, papillose." 



On rocky hillsides, Illinois and Kansas, southward to 

 Tennessee and Oklahoma 



