CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI. ^89 



In the ifland of Raafay, near Sky, in RoJ^JJjire, 

 and fonie other places, the inhabitants make ufe 

 of this plant inftead of allum, to fix the colours 

 in dying. 



The highlanders alfo fometimes take an infufion of 

 it as an emetic and cathartic, but it operates 

 '""' violently, and, unlefs taken in a fmall dole, 

 ■-.. . I ,.; . brings on giddinefs and convuluons. 



' ■ \ • Ltnfj^iis informs us, that the Swedes ufe a decoc- 

 "■ . "' ^ •" tion of it to deftroy lice on fwine and other 

 animals. 



mnotinum^ LYCOPODIUM foliis fpariis quinquefariis fub- 



1 ferratis, uirculis annotino-articulatis, fpicis ter- 



minalibus glabris eredis. Sp. /»/. J5'''-6. (Moris. 



::,6\ L rr ^^fi-f- ^5- ^- 5- /• 3- P^^'-^- ^- 205. /. .-,. Dillen. 

 „■£ :; •,.-:• . tnufc. t. C^.f. 9. opt. Oed. Dan. t. 127.) 



:...•■ Jointed Club-mofs with Juniper leaves, yinglis. 

 ■■'ii ... In rough ftony places on the fides of the highland 

 ,.(■ , ''-■ mountains, but not comnion. 'U.VIII. 

 «'■■ ' ■ The flalks are two or three feet long, proftratc 

 '-'• ■ '" • and creeping-, the branches erefl, dichotomous, 

 ,;..':: '. ., and divided into joints by the fiioots of each 

 ' ;.'j year. The leaves are rigid, fmooth, linear-lan- 

 ''■>'■' ■" ceolate, acute, decurrent at the bafe, in general 

 !• ' ■ (lightly ferrated, but ibmetimes entire, ere6l, and 

 - ■•' ■•. clofely imbricated in the new fnoots, but hori- 

 • i/ • ' • ': zontal and fometimes reflexed in the old ones. 

 The fpikes grow fingly at the extremities of the 

 i ' Y V * branches, 



