LYCOPODIACE^. 1 5 



considered as a distinct subspecies, and bear the name Bigelovii, 

 which is given to the larger form of it. L. alopecuroides, Linn., 

 another North American form, seems no more than a subspecies, with 

 the leaves conspicuously ciliate, especially towards the base : the 

 whole plant is much larger than L. inunclatum. 



Marsh Club -'moss. 



SPECIES III.-LYCO PODIUM ANNOTINUM. Linn. 



Plate 1832. 



Babenh. Crypt. Vase. Europ. No. 67. 



L. juniperifolium, DC. Fl. Fr. Vol. IV. p. 572. 



Stem very long, creeping, prostrate, much branched ; branches 

 ascending or erect, unbranched or irregularly once or twice diehoto- 

 mous. Leaves inserted all round the stem, rather distant, most of 

 them turned upwards and slightly falcate so as to be subsecund ; those 

 the under side of the stem mostly adpressed to it, lanceolate strap- 

 shaped, acute, not piliferous, entire or faintly denticulate ; leaves on 

 the branches 5-farious, crowded, ascending or spreading or slightly 

 reflexed, decurrent, linear strap-shaped or narrowly elliptical-strap- 

 shaped, acuminated and acute, pungent, remotely serrated, with 

 callous points ; those at the termination of each year's growth smaller 

 and adpressed, which gives the branches the appearance of being con- 

 stricted at intervals. Spikes oblong-cylindrical, subobtuse, terminating 

 some of the branches. Bracts yellow, deltoid-ovate or roundish, 

 abruptly acuminated so as to be cuspidate with the cusp frequently 

 drawn out into a long point, cordate at the base, finely denticulate 

 on the margins. 



On heaths in mountainous districts. Rather local. On Grlyder 

 Fawr above Flyn-y-cwm, Carnarvonshire ; Charnwood Forest, Leices- 

 tershire ; Lake district. In the Scotch highlands it is more common, 

 occurring on the Bread albane, Clova, Braemar, and Inverness moun- 

 tains. It is reported from G-oatfell in Arran, and I have collected it 

 in the south of Mull at an elevation which from recollection I should 

 estimate at about 50 yards. In Orkney it occurs in Berridale, Hoy, 

 and I believe in Ronsay. 



England, Scotland. Perennial. Summer, Autumn. 



Stem 1 or more yards long, tough, wiry, flexuous, rooting at 

 distant intervals, sending up simple or once or twice forked branches 

 3 to 9 inches high. Leaves coriaceous, almost rigid, green inclining 



