tab. ym. 
Fhylloglossum Drummondi, Kze . 
Gen. Char. Spica pedunculata, brevis, oblongo-ovata, cap- 
sulifera, bracteata. Bractece phirimag, spiraliter dispositas, 
subimbricatag, cordato-rotundatag, integerrimae, crassius- 
culag, subcamosae, mucronatim acuminatag, basi producta 
libera. Capsules solitariag axillares (in bractearum axillis) 
reniformes, erectag, bivalves, verticaliter usque ad basin de- 
hiscentes. Spores numerosag subtetrahedrag, pellucidag. — 
Herhaceum , pusillum , australasicum. Caudex brevissimus, 
subnullus. Radix e fibris 1-3 simplicibus, crassiusculis , albis 
tuber osa; tuberibus oblongis basi attenuatis . Folia radi- 
calia , vel subradicalia, line aria, semiteretia, acuta, scapo, seu 
pedunculo breviora. Scapus teres, crassus, solitarius, spici- 
ferus. 
Phylloglossum Drummondi, Kze. in Botanische Zeitung , 1843. 
” 843.) 
Spring Monogr. des Lycop. P. II. 
Hab. Australia, Swan River, Drummond , n. 993. George 
Town, Van Dieman’s Land, R. Gunn, Esq . n. 1560. New 
Zealand, peaty soil near the Wytangi River, Dr. Hooker , 
Rev. W. Colenso (n. 325), Dr. Sinclair. 
In 1843 a woodcut and description of this very remar- 
kable plant were published by Professor Kunze, in Mohl’s 
Botanische Zeitung for 1843, as a new genus and even a 
new natural group of the Linnagan Filices. It is a matter of 
surprise then, that these should appear to be unknown to 
Dr. Spring, who presented his u Monographic des Lycopdi - 
acees ” to the Academie Royale de Belgique in 1849, and there 
described it as a new Lycopodium , 66 L. Sanguisorba ,” remark- 
ing, however, that “d’apres son facies on croirait avoir affaire 
a une espece du genre IsoetesT Professor Kunze’s view we 
consider more correct; “Pianta memorabilis, habitu fere 
Plantaginem pusillam referens, seu inter Filices Ophioglosso 
Bergiano , Sclilect. (Hooker, Ic. PI. p. 263.) non absimilis.” 
It is of the size, and with the general habit, of that plant, 
but the spike is that of Lycopodium. It may well form a 
distinct order between Ophioglossacece and Lycopodiacece : — 
and we have here had little more to do than improve Kunze’s 
accurate characters, by means of our more copious specimens. 
Fig. 1. Entire plant, f. 2. Spike of fructification, f. 3. 
Inside view of a bractea with a capsule, f. 4. Outside view 
of ditto, f. 5. Spores: — all more or less magnified. 
p. i cum ic. xyiogr. ^ 
Lycopodium Sanguisorba, 
p. 36, (1849.) 
