484 THE PILL-WOET FAMILY. 



HABITATS AND LOCALITIES. 



1. Common Club-moss — [Lycopodiuni clavatum.) 



On the high hills north and east of Manchester. Fo-edge. Kinder 

 Scout. Greenfield. Once found in a hilly pasture at Apethorne. 



E. B. iv. 324. 



2. Alpine Club-moss — [Lycopodium alptnum.) 



In the same situations. Kinder Scout ; Greenfield ; Fo-edge ; but 



in the latter place for the present rather obscured, owing to the 



land-slip in the bank. Wood-bank Farm, Bredbury. (Mr. Isaac 



Williamson.) 



E. B. iv. 254. 



3. Selago — [Lycopodium Selago.) 



In the same situations. Greenfield. Fo-edge. 

 E. B. iv. 233. 



4. Maksh Club-moss — (^Lycopodium. inundatwn.') 

 Formerly on Baguley Moor, and probably still lingering in the 

 neighbourhood. (Margin of Oak Mere, Delamere Forest. Mr. Leigh.) 



E. B. iv. 239. 



CLIII.— THE PILL-WORT FAMILY. MarsiledcecB. 



A little family of insignificant aquatics, growing in ditches and 

 inundated places, and in England represented only in the Isoetes and 

 the pill- wort. The latter occurs near Manchester. Stems long, 

 slender, and creeping, with roots at every joint. Leaves also at the 

 joints, linear, two to three inches long, bright green. Thecic re- 

 sembling little pills, almost sessile in the axils of the leaves, covered 

 with short hairs, and divided into four cells, which open at the top, 

 when ripe, into four valves. 



HABITATS AND LOCALITIES. 

 Common Pill-wort — {Pihddria glohdifera.) 

 Formerly on the edges of ponds on Baguley Moor, and probably 

 still thereabouts. Ponds near Longford Bridge. (Mr. John Hardy.) 

 Curtis, iii. 0(10; K. B. viii. 521. 



