524 L YCOPODIA CE^. [LYCOPODIUM. 



l. LYCOPO'DIUM, L. CLUE-MOSS. 



Perennial. Stem erect prostrate or creeping. Leaves small. Capsules 

 coriaceous, flattened, reniform, 1-celled, 2-valved. DISIRIB. Of the Order ; 

 species about 50. ETYM. \VKOS andTroDs, from a fancied resemblance to a 

 wolf s foot. 



* Stem creeping. Capsules in terminal cones. 



1. Ii. clava'tum, L. ; leaves hair-pointed, cones peduncled. 



Heaths and moors, Shetland to Cornwall, Hants, and Essex; ascends to 

 2,500 ft. in Yorkshire ; Ireland ; frt. July-Aug. Stems 1-3 ft., rigid, 

 flexuous, much branched, densely leafy. Leaves imbricate all round, -^ in., 

 subsecuud, inuurved, linear-oblong or lanceolate, acuminate, hair-point 

 variable in length. Cones 1-3 in., solitary or in pairs on a rigid erect 

 peduncle covered with minute appressed subulate leaves, cylindric, obtuse ; 

 scales appressed, broadly ovate or cordate, acuminate. Capsules orbicular- 

 reniform. DISTRIB. Arctic, and N. and S. temp, and cold regions. 



2. L. anno'tinum, L. ; leaves acuminate entire or serrate, cones sessile, 

 scales broadly ovate toothed. 



Rocks and stony alpine moors, from Orkney to the Clyde and Perth; N. 

 Wales, Cumberland, Westmoreland, Lancashire, Leicester; ascends to 

 2,700 ft. in the Highlands ; frt. June-Aug. Habit of L. clava'tum, but 

 less branched, branches constricted here and there, leaves more lax, ob- 

 scurely 5-farious, sometimes spreading, linear-lanceolate; scales of obtuse 

 cone broad, abruptly acuminate. DISTRIB. Europe (Arctic), N. and W. 

 Asia, Himalaya, America. 



3. It. complana'tum, L. ; leaves 2-4-farious lanceolate quite entire, 

 cones peduncled or sessile, scales broadly ovate subentire. 



Stony moors, heaths, &c., from Shetland to York, Derby, Wales, Somer- 

 set and Hants ; Ireland ; frt. July-Aug. Stem 6-13 in., rigid, wiry, flexuous, 

 sparingly leafy ; branches fastigiate, much forked, ascending or erect. 

 Leaves |-| in., dark green, appressed, of 2 sizts; larger (lateral) adnate, 

 subdecurreut, concave, obtuse ; smaller shorter, more subulate, free. Cones 

 |-1 in., oblong, obtuse, terete. DISTRIB. Temp, and cold regions of the 

 N. hemisphere and mts. of the tropics. 



L. COMPLANA'TUM proper ; leafy branches longer less crowded, leaves dimor- 

 phic, central ones on the flattened stem more erect and narrower than the 

 lateral, spikes usually several peduncled. Gloster and Worcester. (Temp, 

 regions and mts. of tropics.) 



Sub-sp. L. ALPI'NUM, L. ; leafy branches shorter more crowded not flattened, 

 leaves uniform, spikes solitary sessile. Common in Wales and N. to 

 Shetland, ascends to 4,000 ft. in the Highlands. (N. temp, and Arctic 

 regions.) 



4. Ii. inunda'tum, L. ; leaves secund on the sterile branches subulate- 

 lanceolate quite entire, scales of cone subulate with much-dilated spinous- 

 toothed bases. 



Wet heaths and bogs, from Eoss southd., local ; Ireland, very rare ; frt. June- 

 Aug. Stems short, 2-6 in., closely appressed to the ground. Leave 



