42 LYCOPODIACEAE. 
6. Lycopodium annotinum L. Stiff 
Club-moss. (Fig. 93.) 
Lycopodium annotinum I,. Sp. Pl. 1103. 1753. 
Stems much branched, slender, prostrate and 
creeping, rather stiff, 1°-4° long, the branches sim- 
ilar, ascending, 5/-8’ high, sparingly forked. 
Leaves uniform, spreading, 5-ranked, rigid, linear- 
lanceolate, minutely serrulate, nerved below; spikes 
solitary or several at the ends of the branches, ob- 
long-cylindric, 1/-2'%4’ long, composed of ovate or 
ovate-cordate, short-acuminate and denticulate 
bracts, each with a sporange in its axil; spores 
smooth or spinulose-reticulated on the basal surface. 
In woods and thickets, commonly in dry soil, Lab- 
rador to Alaska, south to New Jersey, West Virginia, 
Michigan, Colorado and Washington. Also in Europe 
and Asia. Mountain forms with more rigid pointed 
leaves have been separated as var. pungens. Autumn, 
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7. Lycopodium alpinum LL. Alpine Club- 
(Fig. 94.) 
Lycopodium alpinum I,. Sp. Pl. 1104. 
8. Lycopodium sabinaefolium Willd. 
Cedar-like Club-moss. 
Lycopodium sabinaefolium Willd. Sp. P1.5: 20. 1810. 
Stems elongated, creeping, or more usually sub- 
(Fig. 95.) 
Stems elongated, creeping, with ascending densely 
clustered crowded dichotomous branches. Leaves 
4-ranked, erect-imbricate, adnate-decurrent, of two 
forms; those of the lateral rows lanceolate, falcate, 
acute, carinate, concave within, those of the interme- 
diate rows scarcely one-third as large, lanceolate-sub- 
ulate, the upper and lower rows alike ; spikes solitary 
at the apices of slightly elongated branches, erect, 
closely sessile, the stems leafy to their bases; bracts 
broadly ovate, acuminate, dentate ; spores reticulated. 
In woods, Labrador to Lake Superior, Washington and 
Alaska. Sometimes united with Z. complanatum, Also 
in Europe and Asia. 
terranean with short erect dichotomous clustered 
ascending branches, 2’-3/ long. Leaves 4-ranked, 
small, appressed or slightly curved outward, lan- 
ceolate, mucronate, entire, apparently terete; 
spikes short-peduncled, solitary, cylindric, with 
cordate acuminate erose-denticulate or entire 
bracts; sporanges transversely oval or somewhat 
reniform, deeply splitting. 
In cold woods, Labrador to New Jersey and British 
Columbia. 
