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Labrador, south to Washington, the Great Lakes and 

 Virginia. 



4. Lycopodium sitchense Rupr. (Plate 1, Fig. 3.) 



Tufted Club-moss. 



Stems prostrate, 8-24 in. long, beneath or on surface 

 of ground, much-branched; branches tufted, consisting 

 of compact masses of vertical terete branchlets; tufts 

 1-5 in. high with occasional stronger fertile branchlets 

 higher than the sterile. Leaves lanceolate, with wide 

 base, spreading, curving upward, thick, entire, acute, 



on the branchlets 5-ranked. Cones 14-% in. long, 



sessile or on sparsely-leaved slender pedicels which some- 



times 



leaves broadly ovate, acuminate.— British Columbia to 



Labrador, south to Oregon and New York. 



5. Lycopodium clavatum L. (Plate 2, Fig. 3.) 



Running Pine. 



Stems creeping, 1-10 ft. long, with similar branches, 

 decumbent or ascending, 3-8 in. high; leaves crowded, 

 many-ranked, incurved, linear to subulate, bristle-tipped, 

 lower denticulate, upper entire. Cones 1-4 in a cluster, 

 on a long pedicel, %-2Y 2 in. long. Spore-leaves mem- 

 branous, ovate, awn-tipped, bearing oval sporangia 

 which split nearly to base. — Alaska to Labrador, south 

 to Washington, Michigan and North Carolina.— The 

 spores are sold under the drug name of Lycopodium. 

 It relieves a chapped s"kin by its moothness, and is also 

 used internally in dyspepsia and bronchial troubles. 



6. Lycopodium annotinum L. (Plate 3, Fig. 1.) 



Stiff Club-moss. 



Stems prostrate, branched, stiff, slender, 1-4 ft. long? 

 branches similar, ascending, 5-10 in. high, sometimes 



