- CRYPTOGAMIA JVIUSCL 6S5 



M use h 



LYCOPODIUM. Gen, pL 1 1 85. 



Anthera bivalvis, felBHs. Calyptra nulla. 



ckvm.!H I LYCOPODIUM foliis fparfis filameRtofis, fpicr. 



1 tcretibus pedunculatis gemlnis. Sp. pi. 1564, 



(Ger. em. 1562. /. 11. Mcris.hijf. f. 15./. 5./. 



2. Fkk, t. 47./. 8. Z)///f«. muf. ;. 58./. I. «/>/, 



Oed. Dan. t. 126 ) 



Common CIub-Mofs. Ajiglis. 



In dry mountainous heathy places, and fir-forefts, 



%. VII. 

 The flalk is proftrate, branched, and creeping, 

 ' from a foot to two or three yards long ; the ra- 



dicles woody* The leaves are numerous, nar* 

 row, lanceolate, acute, often incurved at the 

 extremity, terminated ^\ith a long white hair, 

 and every where furround the ftaik. The pe- 

 duncles are ere(^, firm, and naked (except being 

 thinly fee with lanceolate fcales) and a rife from 

 the ends of the branches. They are generally 

 two or three inches long, and terminated with 

 ' two cylindrical, yellowilh fpikes. Imbricated 



with oval-acute fcales, finely lacerated on the 

 edges, and ending with a hair. In the A^a^ or 

 bofom of each fcale is a kidney-fhap'd capfule, 

 which burfts with clafticity when ripe, and throws 



out 



