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2e Le. obscurum L. wove. w Fragrant pale-green bushy herbs with 
gins aepert oP nontege seedings, arising from stout wiry running rootstocks, 
the stems repeatedly branching, all beset with subulate-acicular spreading 
leaves, 5-5 mm, long, acute to a cuspidate tip, entire; sporophylls broadly 
ovate, acuminate, papery, erosulate, crowded into sessile strobilis +he 
sporangia reniform, 
Gay «Known in our region lenie—trok woods, Upper Priest Lake, 2700 ft., 
Epling 7731. 
5. Le sitchense Rupr, Fragrant low tufted somewhat procumbent or mat-forming 
herbs, arising from stout rhizomes, the stems ascending, numerous, 4-8 or 
more cm, tall, the leaves short, thick, awl-shaped or ovate~-acuminate, 
appressed, 5-5 mm, long, incurved at the acute tips, entire; sporophylls 
broadly ovate, erosulate, abruptly acuminate, papery, crowded in short rather 
dense sessile strobilie(L. sabinaefolium var. sitchense Fern, ) 
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Ww Creeping over rocks, rare in our region, Lion Cre, 4000 ft., Kaniksu 
Forest, Epling & Houck 10273, 
4, L. clavatum L. Running-pine, Pleasantly fragrant bright green creeping 
herbs from stout wiry rootstocks, forming often extensive net-like ground 
cover, the fertile branches erect, stiffish, 10-15 cm, long at maturity, 
beset with loosely imbricate leaves, arising from stout terete sparsely 
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leafy running stems; leaves linear-subulete, bristle-tipped, entire, 4-7 
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mm. long, spreading in ages sporophylls ovate-acuminate to a long hairlike 
bristle, hyaline-scarious, ciliolate, thin, crowded into elongate-cylindric 
strobili, 2.5-3.5 (or 6.5) cm, long, in long-pedunculate clusters of 2 or 3 ; 
(to 5) erect strobili borne well above the foliage, the sporangia rourid-reniform, | 
Our most common Lycopodium, of moist shaded hillsides and woods, 2700- 
5000 feet, forming ee 
