THE TRAILING LYCOPODIUMS. 



L. Fernald thinks our plant should have a different 

 name. He has recently proposed to call it vd.n&'iy flabel- 

 liforme. There seems to be good reason for thinking 

 that the Linnaean plant is represented in our far North- 

 or, rather, that our plant with spreading fan-shaped 

 branches tends to bear these branches erect as one pro- 

 ceeds northward. 



Growing with the common ground-pine, and seldom 

 distinguished from it by the novice, may often be found 

 specimens in which the branchlets are more erect and in 

 which the under row of leaves scarcely differs iii size from 

 the upper and lateral rows. This has usually been regard 

 ed as a fairly distinct variety or species named chaiiicecy- 

 parissus. In contradistinction to the type, the main 

 stem is quite like a rootstock, being pale, 

 slender, and buried several inches in the 

 earth. The foliage is often lighter in 

 colour, and the branchlets also more 

 inclined to lengthen at the tips the second 

 season than in Lycopodiitiii complanatuiii, 

 and wliile they are not spreading they 

 are more or less flattened, as in the other. 

 The fruiting parts are exactly like those 

 of Lycopodiitm coniplauatitin but are said 

 to ripen their spores two or three weeks 

 earlier. This latter feature, however, 

 seems to depend entirely upon the soil and 

 surroundings of the plant. ChamcEcy- Upper and under 



^ I J surface of Branchlet. 



parissiis is rarely if ever found growing 

 alone, and the invariable proximity of specimens of 

 Lycopodhnii coinplanatiim suggests that it is only a 

 strong and well-marked form, due, perhaps, to the main 

 stem being accidentally covered with earth. Intergrad- 



J-iycppodhiin com- 



planatinii chama-- 



cyftarissus. 



