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it is almost impossible to distinguish them from the 

 foliage alone. Others again are nearly identical with 

 some of the larger species of Lycopodiums, crypto- 

 gams allied to ferns and mosses. We have figured 

 one example of a compact composite plant {Azorella 



Fig. 6?i.—Lycopodium 

 compacttini. 



Fig. 69. — Azorella 

 selago. 



selago) for comparison with one of the club-mosses 

 {Lycopodiiun coinpactiini). Other instances might 

 have been selected from remote families, in which 

 the same resemblance is sustained, so that from the 



