i9 2 Club- Moss ( Lycopodiacece ) . [No. 27 



Fig. 91.— (3) Northern Ground-Pine. Festoon Ground-Pine. 



L. complanhtum, L. 



Leaves of the stem and branches awl-shape, sharp ; those 

 on the flat branchlets in four distinct rows, and of 

 two forms, namely : the two marginal rows with 

 spreading tooth-like leaves ; the two surface rows 

 with much smaller and closely pressed leaves (giving 

 thus a saw-like look) ; those of the spikes scale-like, 

 yellowish, egg-shape or heart-shape. 



Steins, round, creeping extensively among the leaves and 

 moss, two to ten feet in length, often underground. 

 Branches, two to three inches long, more or less erect 

 once- or twice-forked, and then divided into many 

 very flat branchlets. Fertile branches, terminated 

 by a slender stalk bearing the two to six cylindrical 

 fruiting spikes, each spike one inch or more in length. 

 Branchlets, crowded, much flattened, spreading (fan- 

 like), somewhat resembling in form a spray of Arbor- 

 Vitse or White Cedar. July. 



Found, common in woods and thickets, especially north- 

 ward. 



