CRVPTOGAMIA MUSCL 685 



M U S C L 



LYCOPODIUM. Gen.:pL 11 85. 



Anthera bivalvis, fcfTilis. Calyptra nulla* 



da-Jatum i LYCOPODIUM foliis fparfis filamentoris, fpicis 

 terctibus pedunculatis gemlnis. Sp. pL 1564. 

 {Ger. em. 1562. /. 11. Moris, hiji.f. 15. t. 5./. 

 2. Fluk, /. 47./. 8. DJiIen. niuf, t. 5^.}. i. opt. 

 Oed. Dan. /. 126; 



Common Club-Mofs. Anglis, 



In dry mountainous heathy places, and fir-forefts, 

 1;. VII. 



The ftalk is proftrate, branched, and creeping, 

 from a foot to ^o or three yards long i the ra- 

 dicles woody. The leaves ^re numerous, nar- 

 row, lanceolate, acute, often incurved at the 

 extremity, terminated with a long white hair, 

 and every where furround the ftalk. The pe- 

 duncles ar« erc(5l, firm, and naked (except being 

 thinly fct with lanceolate fcales) and arife from 

 the ends of the branches. They are generally 

 two or three inches long, and terminated with 

 two cylindrical, yellowilh fplkes, imbricated 

 with oval-acute fcales, finely lacerated on the 

 edges, and ending with a hair. In the Ala^ or 

 bofom of each fcale is a kidney-lhap'd capfule, 

 which burfts with elafticity when ripe, and throws 



out 



