MOIWTAIN ILOW I::i<S .-- 



FIELD HORSETAIL 



Equiseiuin ariwust-. Horsetail 1- amily 



Stems: annual, hollow, jointed, i)roviclecl with scattered stomata. the 

 fertile appearing: in early spring before the sterile. Leaves : reduced to 

 sheaths at the joints. 



This is a rush-like plant of a very rank coarse iialtirc, which 

 grows in ditches and along the sand)' waysides. The fertile 

 stems, which appear in the early sprini;', .l^mow from fcnir to ten 

 inches high and are lii;ht brown in. colotir. They arc not 

 branched, but terminate in a solitar)- cone-like spike. The 

 sterile stems, which ajDpear later on in the season, are green 

 and rather slender, averaging eighteen inches in height. 

 They have numerous verticillate branches, the sheaths of 

 which are four-toothed. 



STIFF CLUB-MOSS 



LycopodiiDii aiuiotinin)i. Club-moss Family 



Stems: much branched, slender, prostrate and creei)inn;, rather stiff, 

 the branches ascending, sparingly forked. Leaves uniform, spreading. 

 five-ranked, rigid, linear-lanceolate, minutely serrulate, nerved l)elo\v: 

 spikes solitary at the ends of the branches, oblong-cylindric, composed 

 of ovate bracts, each with a sporange in its axil ; spores smooth on the 

 basal surface. 



A moss-like herb, with numerous liny lea\es comi^lelely 

 covering the short brandies, which ternnnale in dense oblong 

 spikes composed of small bracts, each one with a - >■ '"M- 

 taining spores in its a.xil. 



/.. clavatum, or Creei)ing Club-moss, has extensively creep- 

 ing stems and short, irregular, densely leaty branches. The 

 leaves are much crowded, inctnved, and tij)i>ed with tiny 

 bristles, and the spikes grow in clusters of from one to four 

 on long peduncles. 



