320 F I L I C E s. 



3. LYCOPODIUM, Linn. 

 § 1. EXSTIPULAT.E. 



* Capsulis axittaribus. 



1. Lycopodium erubescens, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 45.) 



L. caulibus rubentibus erectis dichotomis ; ramk apice obtusis ; foliis 

 suboctofariis homomorphis plants linear i-lanceolatis acutis integer rimis 

 patentibus; capsulis axittaribus. 



Hab. Sandwich Islands ; on Mouna Haleakala, East Maui : in wet 

 lands, at the altitude of 6,000 feet. 



Plant tufted, from 4 to 8 inches in height, having a brown appear- 

 ance in a recent state ; the stems, when divested of their leaves, are 

 of a reddish colour, erect, seldom assurgent at the base, branched 

 twice or thrice in a dichotomous manner. The branches are about 

 equal in thickness from the base to the obtuse apex. Leaves all of one 

 size and form, \h lines long and about half a line broad, linear-lanceo- 

 late, acute, entire, the lower half somewhat appressed to the stem, the 

 upper half bent outwards, all arranged in a somewhat eight-ranked 

 manner. Capsides somewhat compressed and reniform, of a pale 

 yellow colour, persistent in the axils of the leaves, those of the pre- 

 ceding years being present as low down as the primary divisions of 

 the stems. 



The habit of this is very much that of the following species ; but 

 it is quite distinct in the form of its leaves, and in the colour and 

 direction of its branches. 



Plate 45. — Fig. 1. Plant, of the natural size. 1 a. Section of a 

 stem. 1 b. Leaf, with a capsule at its base. 1 c. Spores. — The 

 details more or less magnified. 



