50. AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
covered growing together in a spot close to the bog, 
where numerous hummocks displayed the qualities of 
the plants to great advantage. Here the ring of L. 
_ sabinaefolium was probably forty feet in diameter and 
could be easily distinguished by its leaves, which give it 
the look of a trailing cedar. Reindeer moss, Poly- 
trichums, and Hypnums were mingled with the club 
mosses, all being in the partial shade of scattered young — 
maples. In this region L. tristachyuwm is very dense in 
growth, especially where it is in the open. Its funnel-_ 
shaped fans are so heavy as to feel almost leaden in the — 
_ hand; its color is a > glaucous blue-green, and its — 
