CLI:B-MOSS FAMILY. :',7:\ 



i. Fructification not in a distinct spike. Leaves (ill a/ike, dark-gre*n, ;-,/"/, 



in about 8 rows. 



L. lucidulum. Damp wood- X.: stems 4' - 8' Ion-, tufted. ascending, 

 forking; leaves spreading or rellexed, >harp-poiiit<d, inv^nhirh .-errulatc, dark 

 green and shining. 



2. Fructification s/n'kt-d at tin tn/i of an < r, <-t Branch : fertile leave* and timse of 

 (lie creeping stems nearli/ alike, si; ft, narrmrli/ limar, muni/-r<><i:-i/. 



L. alopecuroides. riiic-barren swamps. NYw Jersey ^ S. : scarcely ever- 

 green: stem anil sparingly forked sterile branches creeping, fertile ones 6' 18' 



high, all rather stout and thickly clothed with >pn-:iding .-ol'i linear-awl-shaped 

 bristly-ciliate leaves, those of the spike with long slender tips. 



3. Fructification spiked: the fruitim/ Imi-es yellowish, scale-like, shorter and 

 broader than those of the sterile br/nn-ln 5. 



* Spike sessile at the top of an ordinary brunch. 



L. anno'tinum. Cold woods N. : stein creeping, l-4 long; branches 

 4''- 9' high, nearly erect, once or twice forked ; leaves about 5-rowed, spreading 

 or reflexed, rigid, lanceolate, acute, nearlv entire ; those of tin- solitary >pik<-> 

 ovate, with spreading points and ragged scarion- margins. 



L. dendroideurn, GROUND-PINE. Moi-t wood-, common X. : root-tock 

 creeping, under-ground, nearlv leaHess ; steins looking much like a miniature 

 hemlock, 9' -12' high; the manv spreading branches with shining lanceolate 

 entire leaves in about six rows ; leaves of the lower and often of the upper row 

 smaller than the rest; spikes single, or 4-10 on a plain; scales ovate pointed, 

 margin slightly scarious, nearly entire. 



# * Spikes raised above the ordinary branches on a slender stalk which has only a 



few inconspicuous leaves 



*- Stems creeping, very short: spikes always single. 



L. Carolinianum. Wet pine-barrens, New Jersey and S. : scare, ly ever- 

 green ; stem and prostrate branches rooting underneath ; leaves soft, lanceolate, 

 entire, spreading horizontally, with an upper appre-sed row ; spikes slender on 

 stalks 4' -6' high. Allied in habit to L. alopecuroides. 



-i- -i- Stems extensively creeping : spikes often in pairs or flrtrs. 



L. davatum, CLUB-JIOSS. Common N. in dry woods : running stem long 

 and leafy; branches mostly erect, cordlike, irregularly pinnat < : brancblcts 

 4-10, thickly covered with linear-awl-shaped entire commonly bristle-tipped 

 leaves ; spikes mostly in pairs. 



L. COmplanatum. Dry woods, commonest amoni; evergreens : niiinln^ 

 stems with scattered awl-shaped very small leaves; brain-he-, erect. >'-\cral tinier 

 branched : the parts repeatedly forked into many hori/.ontally spreading llat- 

 tened branehlets. 



2. SELAGINELLA. (Name a diminutive of .S'r/a'/o, a species ofLyco- 

 podinm.) Species over 200, the greater part tropical. 



1 . Native species. 

 S rupestl'is. Exposed rocks : a common moss-like little evergreen ; stems 



and densely tufted branches l'-2' hi^h ; leaves n\vl--;liaped. marked with a nar- 

 row furrow on the back, and tipped with a minute bristly point ; spikes four- 

 cornered. 



S. apUS. Damp places in meadow-; ; common, r-pceialh S. : very delicate , 

 stems 2'-4' high, sparingly branched; leaves 4-rowed, th<>-e of the vide row- 

 spreading horizontally, scarcely 1'' lonir, ovate with the upper side larger, mi- 

 nutely serrulate; intermediate one- half a> larur, erect, very acitn- ; spike-; 

 2'' -6" long. Often cult, as ,S'. </<>/. 



2. Cultivated, most 1 1/ tropical species, seen in rnxi'r>;it'>,-i. s : nine/! branched: 

 leans of th<> linnich'S flmr-i-oif'-d, tn-'> sid? rc/rs </' > <i:<idin,i 



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parent! ;/ ed</< ivise, and tiro up/n-r ron-.t t' smaller oppressed leaves. Spike. 

 four-cornered, at the ends of the 



