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on mountains in the North. Ray. About Tonbridge. Mr. For- 

 ster. Warwickshire. Mr. Purton. On St. Faith's heath near 

 Norwich. Mr. Rose. In Scotland^ but not common. Lightfoot. 



Perennial. June, Juhj. 



The stems creep very close to the ground^ with many short scat- 

 tered radicles, and are three or four inches long, slightly branch- 

 ed, densely leafy. Leaves of a pale dull green, ascending, al- 

 most linear, entire, acute, but not pointed or bearded. Spikes 

 solitary, on simple, upright, leafy branches, each spike an inch, 

 or inch and half, long, erect, rather pale, their scales dilated at 

 the base, often with a tooth at each side near the middle. Caps. 

 in the bosoms of the scales, solitary, pale, uniform, full of mi- 

 nute chaffy seeds. 



4. L. Selago. Fir Club-moss. 



Stems upright, forked, level-topped. Leaves in eight rows, 

 uniform, lanceolate, pointless, entire, slightly spreading. 



L, Selago. Linn. Sp. PI. 1565. fVilld. v. 5. 49. Fl. Br. II II, 

 Engl. Bot. V. 4. t. 233. Hook. Scot. p. 2. 159. Fl. Dan. t. 104. 

 Ehrh. Crypt. 1. 



L. n.l716. Hall. Hist. V. 3. ]9. 



Selago foliis et facie Abietis. RaiiSyn. 106. 



5. vulgaris, Abietis rubra facie. Dill. Muse. 435. t. 56./. 1. 

 Muscus terrestris abietiformis. Raii Syn. ed. 2. 27. Moris, v. 3. 



624. sect. \o. t.5.f.9. 

 M. terrpstris species altera. Scheuchz. It. Alp. \.v. 1. 44. t. 6.f. 2. 



On moist mountainous heaths, especially in alpine situations, 

 though sometimes on sandy lowland bogs. 



On the high mountains of Wales, Yorkshire, Derbyshire kc. Ray. 

 In Sussex. Dillenius, On Felthorpe bogs, Norfolk. Mr. Jo- 

 seph Fox. Frequent in the Highlands of Scotland. Hooker. 



Perennial. June — August. 



Root fibrous. Stems a span high, composing dense tufts, level at 

 the top, each once or twice forked, cylindrical, densely leafy all 

 over. Leaves uniform, crowded, in eight rows, of a bright shi- 

 ning green, permanent, lanceolate, entire, acute, pointless, mo- 

 derately spreading every way. Caps, on the uppermost shoots, 

 axillary, kidney-shaped, uniform, with plenty of minute seeds, 

 from which Mr. J. Fox of Norwich, by allowing them to scatter 

 themselves on wet sandy bog-earth, raised living plants, before 

 the year 1779, as recorded in Tr. of Linn. Sac. v. 2. 315. Buds 

 are sometimes produced in the place of capsules ; see Engl. Bot. 



Lightfoot records that the highlanders use this plant, instead of 

 alum, to fix colours in dyeing ; and that they sometimes take 

 an infusion of it, as an emetic and cathartic, though it operates 

 violently, and, unless in a small dose, brings on giddiness and 



