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of bulblets, and appears upon examination to be merely 

 a depauperate form of Lycopodium lucidulum. This view 

 of the matter is fully borne out by the habitat of the 

 plant, for it is described as growing only on sandstone 

 rocks. It is only to be expected that this moisture-lov- 

 ing species, germinating upon a dry sandstone rock, 

 would fail to come to its full luxuriance if it lived at all. 

 It has been described as Lycopodium poropJiilum, but 

 seems scarcely worthy of even subspecific rank. It 

 would more properly be called Lycopodium lucidulum 

 poropJiilum. 



Its range is given as from Wisconsin to Indiana, Ken. 

 tucky, and Alabama, always on sandstone rocks. The 

 discoverer of the Kentucky station for this plant, Miss 

 Sadie F. Price, author of " The Fern Collector's Hand 

 Book and Herbarium," has furnished the author with 

 specimens of this form and with the drawing which 

 faces page IIO. She writes that she collected it for a 

 dwarf form of Lycopodium lucidulum and that when 

 growing it looks like an unthrifty specimen of that 

 species. 



Lycopodium lucidulum ranges from Newfoundland to 

 South Carolina, Alabama, Iowa, and Minnesota. Mr. J. 

 B. Flett has recently discovered specimens in Washing- 

 ton that have been referred to this species, but owing to 

 the fact that the leaves are thinner, with bluntish tips 

 and fewer teeth, it has been named forma occidcntale. 

 Lycopodium liicidulum is also reported from Japan, 

 China, and the Himalayas. It does not seem to be 

 known in Europe, though the so-called variety patens of 

 Lycopodium selago almost exactly matches our plant. 

 Its favourite haunt is a cool springy bank in the dense 

 shade of coniferous trees, though it may also be found 



