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224. Botrychium daucifolium, Wall. 
Bed. 1. t. 68. This is not an, uncommon fern growing under the shade 
of dense forests in the more elevated parts of the Central Province. The 
fertile branch of the rachis rises considerably below the leafy portion of the 
frond. It is a larger and more flaccid plant than the next one, which has 
not hitherto been found out of the Nuwara Ebya Plains. 
225. Botrychium virginianum, Sw. 
Bed. 1. t. 67. This is a small dwarf-looking fern compared with the last 
one, and is found in Ceylon only in the grassy plains of Nuwara Eliya. 
The following note by Mr. Th waites in En. PI. Zeyl. p. 378 will enable any 
one to distinguish this fern from the last one. “ In general appearance very 
like the preceding species, but. at once distinguished from it by the fertile 
branch of the rachis arising from the middle of the leafy portion of the 
frond, whilst in the preceding it originates below it. 
Lycopodiacece. 
226. Lycopodium phlegmaria, Linn. 
FI. Zeyl. No. 386 and Herb. Herm. Willd. sp. pi V. 10. Maha-hcedaya, 
Sinhalese. Pendulous. L. mirabile, Willd. 1. c. 11, Kuda-hoedaya, Sin erect 
form. The pendulous form of this splendid Club-moss is found growing in 
masses of decayed leaves, &c. in the forks of trees sometimes at a great height, 
and hangs down in very graceful tassels, the lower and fruit bearing .ends 
several times divided. It is a very beautiful and most variable plant, and 
forms of it and of the next one, L. Hookeri, so run into each other, that it 
is most difficult to separate them. 
It is not uncommon in damp forests from near the coast up to several 1000 
feet elevation. It occasionally is several feet in length. The erect form is a stiff, 
rigid, and coarse plant and is found growing on rocks on the ridge separating 
Nilambe from the district of Hewahette. 
The following remarks by Sir J. D. Hooker, in FI. Ant. 1. 116. are so 
entirely applicable to the erect plants I here refer to that they seem to be 
for the same plant. 
“L. varium. L. in Lord Auckland’s group and Campbell’s Island, is one 
of the finest of the genus ; it grows nearly erect on the bare ground, to a height 
of 1-2 feet, branching upwards, copiously leafy, with large spreading leaves, 
bearing at the apices of the branches numerous pendulous or drooping tetra- 
gonous spikes 2-4 inches long. The stems of this species are often nearly the 
thickness of a swan’s quill, with spreading leaves as broad as the middle 
finger ; I have nowhere seen handsomer specimens of it than this Island pre- 
sents, and more constant ones, for it is confined to the woods, and does not 
ascend the hills, neither varying in the narrow belt it inhabits nor seeking 
other localities where it would be exposed to the influence of existing causes.” 
If the following remarks indicate that L. varium and L. selago run into 
each other, and that there is no mistake in Carmichael’s specimens of L. in- 
sulare, coming from Ceylon, then we have a form connecting L. phlegmaria, 
with L. Selago which is said by Hooker “to be perhaps the most vari- 
able plant in the world.” “ This state is nearly allied to some Indian forms 
of the genus, as also to L- lucidulum, Mich, which varies in the serratures of its 
leaves and in other particulars approaches very near, if it does not absolutely 
merge into, American forms of L. selago. Nor is it to be distinguished from Cey - 
Ion and Tristan d’ Acunha specimens of L. insulare, Carm. which further 
passes into L. crassum, Hook and Grev., and through it into some other South 
American species.” 
227- Lycopodium Hookeri, Wall. 
Hooker and Greville, Ic. Fil. t. 185. Found in great abundance on the 
face of rocks and on trees on the tops of the higher ridges in the Kandyan 
country. C. P. 986. for the narrow leaved forms, and C. P. 3281 for broad 
