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HAB. Dry woods. July. About 4 in. high; frond 



very small, variable. 

 B. fumarioides : stipe naked; frond smooth, radi- 

 cal, 3-parted, bipinnate ; leaflets lunate, crenate : 

 spikes bipinnate. 



HAB. Shady woods. Aug. A foot high ; stipe 

 rather thick ; frond somewhat succul. 



j3. obliquum : scape with a single frond below ; leaf- 

 lets oblong-lanceolate, serrulate. 



HAB. Shady low grounds. Flowers later than the 



preceding. 

 B. disseclnm : scape with the frond near the base ; 

 frond tripartite-bipinnatifid ; segments linear, 2- 

 parted, 2-toothed at the extremity. 



HAB. Shady woods. Aug. A span high ; frond 



much divided ; spike compound. 

 B. virginicum : somewhat hairy ; scape bearing the 

 frond in the middle ; frond 3-parted, bipinnatifid ; 

 divisions incisely pinnatitid ; segments obtuse, 

 about 3-toothed ; spikes decompound. 



HAB. Woods. July. Nearly 2 ft high ; stipe 

 mostly hairy ; frond thin ; spik. often geminate. 



,3. gracile : smooth ; spike bipinnate, on a long 

 slender peduncle. 



HAB. Dry woods. A span high ; frond and spike 

 delicate, very smooth. 



LYCOPODI\E^. 



611. LYCOPODIUM. Club-moss. 

 * Spikes pedunculate. 



. L. carolinianum : stem creeping; leaves distichous. 



spreading, lanceolate; peduncle erect, solitary. 



elongated, one-spiked ; bracts sublanceolate. 

 HAB. Sandy swamps. Srpt. Stem oppressed to 



the ground ; jiednnc. 3 — 4 Ml. long, 

 . \j.clavatum: stem creeping, with ascending branches*; 



leaves scattered, incurved, ending in built; spikei 



geminate or ternate, cylindrical, pedunculate ; 



scales ovate, acuminate, coarsely dentate. 

 HAB. Woods. July. Stem long, trailing; lean. 



ending in a diaphanous bristle, entire or scrrul. 



