352 NATIVE AND NATURALIZED PLANTS OF 80UTII CAROLINA. 



4. CREEPING CLUB-MOSS. L. alopecuroides. 



5. SELAGINELLA. • Two species. 



6. PSILOTUM TPJQUETRUM. 



ORDER CXXXVII. WATER-FERN FAMILY. HYDROPLERIDES. 



L FLOATING AZOLLA. Azolla Caroliniana. In still 



water. 



CLASS IV. ANOPHITES, OR ACROGENS. 



Cryptogamous acrogenoiis plants, growing upwards by an axis or stem, 

 and usually furnished with distinct leaves (sometimes the stem and 

 foliage confluent into a frond) composed of cellular tissue alone. 



ORDER CXXXVIII. MOSSES. MUSCI. 



These small and inconspicuons plants have attracted so little of general attention 

 that scarce!}' any of them have received common or popular names. It is onh' of late 

 years that they have claimed the attention and study of Botanists in our country. 

 The eliler American botanists confined themselves mostly to the larger and more con- 

 spicuous flowering plants; and thus it is that there are many new species continually 

 being discovered. 



The same may be said of all the other lower Cryptogams, thS Hepatics, the Lichens, 

 the Fungi, and the Algje. 



A mere list of scientific names of species of all these Cryptogams, besides occupying 

 more space than can be spared, would be of little interest, except to botanists I ^vill, 

 therefore, give an enximeration only, — and say that in my own herbarium there are 

 about 127 species of Musci collected within the limits of the State. 



ORDER CXXXIX. LIVER WORTS. HEPATIC^. 



Of this order I have in my herbarium sixty-five species collected in this State. 



CLASS V. THALLOPHITES, OR THALLOGENS. 



Flowerless plants of the low^est grade, entirely composed of cellular 

 tissue, with no distinction of stem, root, and leaves ; not growing by 

 buds, nor furnished with reproductive organs analagous to flowers ; some 



