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reproduced in fig. 121, B. Such species as L. erythraeum 

 Spring, and others with stiff lanceolate leaves exhibit a striking 

 resemblance to the more slender shoots of some recent conifers, 

 more especially Araucaria excelsa, A. Balansae, Cryptonieria, 

 Dacrydium and other genera. 



Fig. 122. Lycopodium squarrosum. The branches of the larger shoot terminate 

 in cones. (From a plant in the Cambridge Botanic Garden. Beduoed.) 



In Lycopodium tetragonum Hook., (fig. 121, C), a species 

 from the Alpine region of the Andes, the lo j, pendulous and 

 repeatedly forked branches bear four rows of fleshy ovate leaves 

 and simulate the vegetative characters of certain conifers. 



