I>90 CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI. 



branches, and are yellow, nearly cylindrical, 

 three quarters of an inch long, and perfeiflly 

 feflile. The fcaks are acutely oval, and finely- 

 lacer.itcd on the edges i the capfules kidney- 

 fliap'd. 



alpimm 6. LYCOPODIUM foliis quadrifariam imbricatia 

 acutis, furculis eredis dichotomis, fpicis felTili- 

 bus teretibus. Sp. pL 1567. {Lin. Flor. Lap. t. 

 11. f. 6. Dilkn. mujc. t. 58./. 2. Oed. Dan. t. 



79-) 

 Alpine Club-mofs. Savin Club-rijofs. ylnglis. 



k grows near the lummits of almoft all the high 

 mountains of the H ghlands and Hebrides abun- 

 dantly, %. VIII. 



The ftalk is proftrate and creeping, from a foot 

 to a yard long, thinly Icattered with a few fcaly 

 leaves. The branches grow in clufters, two or 

 three inches long, ere<5t and dichotomous, im- 

 bricated with four longitudinal fcries of fhorr, 

 ftiff, oval-acute incurved leaves, prefTed clofe to 

 the branches. 7^he lower branches are triangu- 

 lar, and the imbrication of the leaves fo lax, 

 that their pofition is only alternately oppofite. 

 The fpikes are fingle, fcllilc, about half an inck 

 long, and term>inate the branches. The fcalcs 

 are oval-lanceolate, acute, finely crenated on the 

 edges, and of a dull green colour. The cap- 

 iules are large and ycliow. 



The 



