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LYCOPODIACEM. 



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India they are chiefly Iiill-plants. One of the commoner 

 Indian species is the Stag's-horn Club-moss {Lycopodium 

 davatiwi) of British moorlands. It has a very wide geogra- 

 phical distribution, occurring in the Southern hemisphere, 

 as well as through Northern Asia and Europe and in North 

 America. The Indian form, represented in the woodcut, 

 differs in trivial characters from the European type, but it 

 may be regarded as specifically identical. 



Fig. 235. Lycopodium. clavaium, Indian form, reduced. 



In Sub-type i {Lycopodium) the leaves are usually subulate 

 and imbricated around the stem. Sporanges containing 

 indefinite minute spores of one kind only. 



