Description of Native Vines 
NORTHERN CLUB-MOSS; GROUND Pine. (L. complanatum) : 
leaves 4-ranked, of 2 forms, on flattened, fan-like spreading 
branches ; lateral leaves somewhat spreading, with projecting 
sharp points, saw-like ; leaves above and below smaller, nar- 
rower, closely appressed to stem,—the whole appearance some- 
what like arborvite ; *‘ spike” cylindrical (1' long or more), 2-6 
borne on a slender leafless or minutely bracted stalk growing at 
summit of leafy branch; July ; less fan-like far north. (PL IX.) 
CAROLINA CLuB-Moss. (L. Carolinianum): stem and branches 
trailing, flattened, leafless on under side, leaves on 3 other sides ; 
the lateral broad-lance-shaped and widely spreading ; the upper 
shorter and closely appressed to stem ; “‘ spike” cylindrical (about 
1’), single on a minutely bracted slender stalk (2'-4'); July; 
wet pine-barrens. New Jersey and south. 
Common Cxius-Mmoss. (L. clavatum): leaf of one form, linear 
awl-shaped, finely bristle-pointed, spreading ; branches erect 
(2’-5'), very leafy ; ‘‘ spike ” slender, cylindrical, bristly (t'-2'), 2-3 
(rarely 1 or 4) borne on a slender leafless or minutely bracted 
stalk (4'-6’) that terminates a leafy branch; July; used for 
Christmas decoration. (Pl. IX.) 
INTERRUPTED CLUB-MOss. (L. annotinum) : leaf of one form, 
lance-shaped, very finely serrate near apex, spreading; spike 
single, thick-cylindrical (1'), borne direct from summit of leafy 
2-3-forked branch (4-8), without intervening leafless stalk; 
July ; in woods of New England; a smaller variety found in 
White Mountains. 
104. Dodder. (Cuscuta.) 
Leafless parasitic vines generically called dodder, in 11 species 
(the last found only on frontier), all with thread-like stems bear- 
ing a few minute scales in place of leaves, the whole plant yel/ow- 
ish or reddish, and supported by the juices of the plants around 
which they twine ; the species are chiefly distinguishable by dif- 
ferences in the minute blossoms (%’ long or less), as follows: 
(N.B.—AI! but Flax-dodder and Thyme-dodder have stigmas 
capitate.) 
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