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stem; while in plants developed in more confined and 
humid situations, they are longer, less rigid, and more 
spreading. 
The fructification is, in this species, not borne in ter¬ 
minal spikes, as in the other kinds, but is produced in the 
axils of the leaves along the upper branches of the stem. 
The spore-cases are rather large, sessile, kidney-shaped, 
two-valved, and filled with minute pale-yellow spores. 
Besides the ordinary spores, the plant is furnished with 
other means of propagation in the shape of deciduous buds, 
produced for the most part in the axils of the leaves, about 
the apices of the branches. These buds separate spon¬ 
taneously, fall to the ground, and there vegetate, first pro¬ 
ducing roots, and then elongating into a leafy stem. They 
are formed by an altered leaf, which, becoming somewhat 
swollen on the outside, protrudes from its inner margin 
five small lanceolate leaves or teeth, the whole being 
elevated on a short hardened footstalk. Mr. Newman 
describes these changed leaves as becoming transformed 
into irregular six-cleft calices or cups, the outermost lobe 
of the six being longer and larger than the rest, and of the 
pair on each side, one being generally incumbent on the 
other, so as to nearly conceal it. Within this is a whorl of 
