ACOTYLEDONS. LYCOFODiNE^. Lycopodiitm. 159 

 ORDER VIII. LYCOPODINE^S. Sw. 



'Fructificalionbracte&ted, axillary, or spiked. Capsules frequently 

 of two kinds on the same plant, 1 3-celled, 2 3-valved, 

 containing many minute granules ; or a few, larger corpuscules. 

 Roots fibrous. Stems herbaceous or woody, simple or branch- 

 ed, often creeping. Leaves small, undivided, numerous, scatter- 

 ,jjjfr& alternate and distichous, often stipulated. Mirb. 



14. LYCOTODIUM. 



Capsules one-celled, axillary, sessiTe ; some of them two-valved, 

 filled with a farinaceous substance ; others 3-valved, containing 

 from 1 6 globose corpuscules. Br. 



\. L. clavatum, stem creeping, branches ascending, leaves scat- 

 tered incurved and hair-pointed, spikes geminate cylindrical 

 pedunculate their scales ovate acuminate eroso-dentate. Ijg&lf. 

 p. 685. E.B.t.224. 



HAB. Mountainous and heathy pastures, plentiful. 



The seeds are used to produce artificial lightning on the stage ; and 

 the Poles make a decoction of the plant to cure persons afflicted 

 with that terrible disease, the Plica polonica. 



2. L. alpinum, stems prostrate, branches dichotomous and fasci- 

 culated, leaves quadrifarious oblong convex acute appressed, 

 spikes terminal solitary sessile short cylindrical. Lightf. p. 690. 

 E. B. I. 234. 



HAB. Upon the lofty Highland mountains, plentiful. 



3. L. annotinum, stem creeping, branches ascending dichoto- 

 mously branched, branchlets simple, leaves in 5 rows linear- 

 lanceolate mucronate serrulate patent, spikes oblongo-cylindri- 

 cal solitary sessile terminal. Lightf. p. 689. E. B. L 1727. 



JtiAB. Rough stony places by the sides of the Highland mountains, but 

 not colnmon,, Lightf. Summit of Cairn-gorum, Hook. 



4. L. mundatum^ stern creeping, branches simple solitary erect 

 with a single sessile leafy spike at its extremity, leaves linear 

 scattered acute entire curved upwards. Lightf. p. 687. E. B. 

 t. 239. 



HAB. Wet heathy places and by the sides of lakes, but not common. 

 About filair in Athol, Dr. Parsons. 



5. L. selaginoides, stem creeping, branches ascending simple, 

 leaves scattered lanceolate subpatentciliato-denticulate, spikes 

 terminal solitary. Lightf. p. 686. E. B. t. 1 148. 



HAB. Boggy places by the sides of rivulets on the Highland moun- 

 tains, frequent. 



6.L. SWago, stems dichotompusly branched erect fastigiate, leaves 

 scatteredin Srows linear-lanceolate acuminate entire imbricated 

 rigid, capsules scatjFed (not spiked). Lightf. p. 687. E. B. 

 t. 233. 



