ACOTYLEDONS. LYCOPODINE/^. Lycopod'uim. 159 



Order VIIL— LYCOPODINE.E. Sw. 



Fructificaiionhiacteatedy axillary, or spiked. Capsules frequently 

 of two kinds on the same plant, 1 — 3-celled, 2— 3-valved, 

 containing many minute granules ; or a few, larger coipuscules. 

 — jRoo^s fibrous. S^ewzs herbaceous or woody, simple or branch- 

 ed, often creeping. I^eaves small, undivided, numerous, scatter- 

 ed, or alternate and distichous, often stipulated. Mirb. 



14. LYCOPODIUM. 

 Capsules one-celled, axillary, sessile ; some of them two-valved, 

 filled with a farinaceous substance ; others 3-valved, containing 

 from 1 — 6 globose corpuscules. Br. 



1. L. dauahim, stem creeping, branches ascending, leaves scat- 

 tered incurved and hair-pointed, spikes geminate cylindrical 

 pedunculate their scales ovate acuminate eroso-dentate. Ligltfj. 

 p. 685. E.B.t. 224. 



Hab. Mountainous and heathy pastures, plentiful. 



The seeds are used to produce artificial lightning on the stage ; and 



the Poles make a decoction of the plant to cure persons afflicted 



with that terrible disease, the Plica polonica. 



2. L. alpinum, stems prostrate, branches dichotomous and fasci- 

 culated, leaves quadrifarious oblong convex acute appressed, 

 spikes terminal solitary sessile short cylindrical. Light/, p. 690. 

 E. B. t. 234. 



Hab. Upon the lofty Highland mountains, plentiful. 



3. L. annotinum, stem creeping, branches ascending dichoto- 

 mously branched, branchlets simple, leaves in 5 rows linear- 

 lanceolate mucronate serrulate patent, spikes oblongo-cylindri- 

 cal solitary sessile terminal. Lighlf. p. 689. E. B. t, 1727. 



Hab. Rough stony places by the sides of the Highland mountains, but 

 not common, Light/. Summit of Cairn-gorum, Hook. 



4. L. inundatum, stem creeping, branches simple solitary erect 

 with a single sessile leafy spike at its extremity, leaves linear 

 scattered acute entire curved upwards. Light/, p. 687. E. B. 

 t. 239. 



Hab. Wet heathy places and by the sides of lakes, but not common. 

 About Blair in Athol, Dr. Parsons. 



5. L. selaginoides, stem creeping, branches ascending simple, 

 leaves scattered lanceolate subpatcntciliato-denticulate, spikes 

 terminal solitary. Light/, p. 686. E. B. t. 1 148. 



Hab. Bogg)' places by the sides of rivulets on the Highland moun- 

 tains, frequent. 



6.L. Selago, stems dichotomously branched erect fastigiate, leaves 

 scattered in 8 rows linear-lanceolate acuminate entire imbricated 

 rigid, capsules scattered (not spiked). Light/ p. 687. E. B. 

 t. 233. 



