0Ï tvichotomously branched spike of capsules, with unilateral branches. Pinnules lobed and crenate, blunt, obscurely
veined ; costa, stipes, aud rachis glabrous or pubescent or woolly. Capsules globose, separate from one
another, distichously arranged on the branches of the spike, each bursting transversely. Spores very minute,
three-lobed, or of tliree connate spheres. (Name 0orpv}, a cluster; from the branched clusters of capsules.)
1. Botrychium Virgin ianum (Sw. Syn. Fil. 171) ; glcibmm v. pubescens, scapo subradicnli, fronde
trichotome dmsa, segmentis bipinnatifldis lobatis crenatisque.— FL K Zeal. ii. 50. 13. australe, Br. Prodr.
164. Osmunda tei-nata, Thunb. Jap. p . 329. /. 32. [Gunn, 30.) (T a b . CLXIX. B.)
H a b . Moist shaded places, Gxinn.— [v.v.)
D is t r ib . South-eastern Australia, New Zealand, Himalaya Mountains, Norway, America.
Frond trichotomous, with pinnatifid or bipinnatifid segments, which are lobed or crenate.— P la t e CLXIX. B.
Fig. 1, capsules; 2, s'qoxes-.—magnified.
2. Botrychium Lunaria (Sw. Syn. Pii. 171); glabrum, fronde pinnata, pinnis lunatis.— FL Antarct.
ii. 550 ; Fng. Bot. t. 318; Eooh. Gen. Fil. t. 47 A. [Gunn, 29, 1557.)
H a b . Grassy places, meadows, etc. ; common, ascending to 4000 feet, Gunn.— (?/.«.)
D is tk ib . Yictoria, Fuegia, and throughout the north-temperate and subarctic zones. (A native o f
Britain.)
A smaller plant than B. Virginianum, with a simply pinnate frond of rounded, rhomboid, or lunate pinnae, with
radiating veins.
N a t . O r d . II. LYCOPODIACEÆ, D C .
Gen. I. PIIYLLOGLOSSUM, Kunze.
Capsula in spicam bracteatam pedunculatam dispositæ, axillis bractearum sessiles, reniformes, 2-locu-
lares, 2 -valves, rima verticali transverse dehiscentes, sporis minutissiinis trigonis farctæ.— Folia omnia radi-
calìa, pauca lineari-subulata, te-retia. Eadix tuberosa; tuberibus didymis, Orcliideis refereiitibus.
A very remarkable plant, discovered almost contemporaneously by M. Preiss at Swau River, Mr. Gunn in
Tasmania, and by myself in New Zealand.—Whole plant quite glabrous, rather fleshy, 1-3 inches high. Root of
two ovoid tubers, quite like that of an Orchis, nith long simple fibres from the crown. Leaves few, terete, subulate,
grass-green, erect, rising from the tubers of the present year. Stem, scape, or peduncle solitary, erect, terete,
rising from among the leaves, bearing a small terete spike of imbricating, tiigonous, pedicelled scales. Capsules,
like those of Lycopodium, placed in the axils of the scales. (Name from <^uAÀov, a leaf, and yXonrua, a tongue.)
1. P h y llo g lo ssum Drummondii (Kunze in Bot. Zeit. 724, cum ic. xylog.). Eook. Ic. Plant.
I. 9 0 8 ; PL N. Zeal. ii. 51. Lycopodium Sanguisorba, Spring, Monog. Lycop.pt. 2 .p . 36. [Gunn, 1560.)
H a b . Georgetown, Gunn.— [v. v.)
D is t r ib . South-western Australia, New Zealand.
Gen. I I . TMESIPTERIS, Bernh.
Capsula solitariæ ad axillam folii furcati sessiles, oblongæ, coriaceæ, büobæ, lobis divarieatis subacutis,
bivalves, rima verticali dehiscentes. Spora minntissimæ, oblongæ, curvæ.— Yxoxis, pendula, coriacea, foliosa.
Stipes angulatus. Foha alterna, verlicalia, plana, costata, enervia, obtusa, mucronata, basi decuirentia,
fe rtilia stipitata biloba (seu didyma).
A remarkable genus, containing only one species.—Fronds leafy, pendulous, flaccid, elongated, simple or
dichotomously branched, 6 inches to 2 feet long. Stipes angled. Leaves vertical, decurrcnt, oblong or cnsifoim,
sessile by a broad base, acuminate, blunt or truncate and retuse, with an exserted costa, opaque, coriaceous, 4-1
inch long. Fertile pinna didyraous, stipitate. Capsule large, oblong, two-lobed, the lobes divaricating, splitting
into two valves through both lobes, placed at the forking of a pinnule. Spores vciy minute, oblong, curved.—Two
species have been made of this plant, one for the truiicate-leaved, and the other for the acuminate-leaved, but both
forms may be found on one specimen. (Name from a notch, and mepis, a Fern; from the split pinnules.)
1. Tm esip ter is P o r ste r i (Endl. Prodr. El. Ins. Norf. 6 ).—Spring, Monog. Lycop. p . 265. T.
Tannensis, Lab. FL Nov. EolL \\.p . 105. /. 252 ; Bernh. in Schrad. Journ. 1801,y?. 131. t. 2 . f . 5 ; Fl. N.
Zeal. ii. 51. Psilotum truncatum, Br. Prodr. 164. T. Billardieri, Spring, Monog. I.e. [Gunn, 1353.)
IIab. Not uncommon, hanging from trunks of tree-ferns, racks, etc.—[v.v.)
D i s t r ib . Yictoria, New South Wales, New Zeaiaud, Pacific Islands, California.
Gen. H I . LYCOPODIUM, L.
Capsula sessiles, axillares, uniloculares, reniformes, rima longitudinali dehiscentes, bivalves, sporis
minutissimis trigonis linea tricruri notatis repletæ.—Frondes coriacea, plerumque foliosa, erecta, volubiles
V. pendula. Capsulæ in spicam imbricatam disposita v. fo liis axillares.
A large geuus, whose species are generally very widely diffused, several being found iu most climates and
latitudes. The genus has been monographed by M. Spring iu the fifteenth and twenty-fourth volumes of the
‘ Memoirs of the Brussels Academy.’—Fronds erect from a creeping rliizome, climbiug or pendulous, leafy. Leaves
small, distichous, trifarious, qiiadrifarious, or imbricated. Capsules in sessile or peduncled, terete, angled, or square
spikes, or sessile in the axils of the leaves, kidney-shaped, sessile, one-celled, bursthig longitudinally all round, and
full of minute trigonous spores, each marked with three diverging hues. (Name from Avkos, a wolf, and irons, a
foot; from some fancied resemblance.)
§ a. Se la g o .—Tmves imbricated all round the stem. Capsules axillary in the upper leaves or in the bracts of
terminal, sessile, qiiadrifarious spikes.
1. Lycopodium S ela g o (Linn. Sp. Pi. 1565) ; erectum v. basi decumbens, caulibus cæspitosis ramosis
strictis brevibus subcylindraceis obtusis (nunc proliferis), foliis parvis arete imbricatis erectis (rarius
squarroso-patentibus) subulato-lanceolatis acumiuatis acutisve, capsulis axillaribus.—Eng. Bot. t. 233 ; FL
Antarct. p . 394; FL N. Zeal. ii. 5 2 ; Spring, Monog. p . 19. ( T a b . CLXX. A.)
Hab. Mount Wellington, in bogs.— (u. v.)
D is t r ib . Temperate and alpine regions in all parts of the world. (Native of Britain.)
This is a very widely diffused plant, always growing in moorlands or open boggy grounds, ofteu on mountains.
—Stems stout, rigid, tufted, braiiclied or simple, often decumbeut at the base, erect, cylindrical, 4-8 inches high,
blunt, A—^ inch diameter. Leaves closely imbricated up and round the whole stem, rarely spreading, broadly subulate
or lanccolatc-subiilatc, acuto or acuminate, 2 liues long. Capsules sessile amongst the upper leaves.—Pi,ate
CLXX. A. Fig. 1, leaf and capsule:—magnified.
2. Lycopodium varium (Br. Prodr. 164); caule robusto ramoso basi decumbente dcin erecto
folioso, foliis decurrentibus linearibus obtusis acutisve arete imbricatis squarroso-patentibusve, spicis robustis
cernuis simplicibus v. parce dichotome ramosis, squamis brevibus obtusis rai-iusve foliaceis.— Spring, Monog.
p . 57, et p i. 2. p . 24; FL Antarct.p. 115; FL N. Zeal. ii. 52; Eooh. et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 112. [Gunn,
52, 1554.) (T a b . CLXX. B -F )
ILvii. Abuiulant on the ground and trunks of trees in the forests.— [v.v.)
D is t r ib . New South Wales and Yictoria, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, South Africa.
A common plant, of which several varieties occur : of these, one with weaker stems passes into L. Billardieri,