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LYCOPODIUM penprorpevm. 
Tree-like Club-moss. 
CRYPTOGAMIA STACHYOPTERIDES, Willd.—Nart. Oro. "LYCOPODINE, Brown, 
Gen. Cuar.—Capsule uniloculares, axillares, sessiles, alie bivalves, = 
replete, alize 2-8 valves, corpusculis 1-6 globosis,—Br. 
Lycopodium dendroideum ; caule erecto inferne denudato, superne ra- 
moso, ramis alternis dichotomis patentibus, foliis lineari-lanceolatis 
subsexfariis patulis, spicis solitariis terminalibus sessilibus. 
L. dendroideum, Micu. Fl. Bor. Am. v. ii. p.282.—Swartz, Syn. Fil. p. 178. 
—Wittp. Sp. Pl. v. 5. p.21.—Scuxunr, Fil. t. 164.—Arron, Hort. Ken. 
ed. 2. v. 5. p. 493.—Ditx. Muse. t. 67. 
L, obscurum, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1566. 
Root much creeping, and throwing out stiff, wiry fibres. Stem about 6 or 8 
inches high, at the base undivided, and with very few appressed leaves ; 
upward much branched, with the branches spreading, slightly and grace~ 
fully curved back, opposite, and again frequently divided in a dichoto- 
mous manner. Leaves a beautiful bright green, shining, mostly 
in 6 rows, linear-lanceolate, entire, spreading, but slightly incurved, de~ 
current at the base. Fructification in single cylindrical sessile spikes 
from the extremities of the stem or branches, at first yellow-green, soon 
becoming yellow-brown, and formed of numerous imbricated, cordate, 
membranaceous scales, having within them a bivalved, reniform, coriaceo~ 
membranaceous capsule, of one cell, and conteasmg numerous minute, 
spherical, yellow, sporules. 
This elegant species of Lycopodium seems to be very com- 
mon in North America, according to MicHavx, from Canada 
and New England to the mountainous parts of Carolina. It 
well deserves a place in every garden, being hardy, according 
to Hortus Kewensis; although, in our collection, it has been 
— to succeed best in a cool but airy part of the green- 
"We have abundant dried specimens from Mr Goupr, ga- 
thered at Montreal: our living ones were sent from the same 
country by Mr Krpprn. 
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