CL UB MOSSES — EQ UISETUMS. 



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trioiisly in the low pine barrens of New Jer- 

 sey, is pictured life-size in Fig. 31. 



There are a few remaining small 

 orders of flowerless plants, but with 

 two exceptions their members are 

 not sufficiently known to warrant a 

 description here. These two excep- 



Fig. 30. 



tions are the Club Mosses and 

 the Equisetums or Horse Tails. 

 Club mosses are largely used for 

 decorative purposes at Christmas ^'&- ^^ 

 time ; indeed, they furnish almost the entire 

 supply of winter " evergreen " in the East. 

 There are less than a dozen species in the 



