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BOTANY. 



There are three orders of Lycopods, viz.: 

 437. The Club-Mosses [Order Lycopodiaceo^ are terres- 

 trial plants with many small, generally moss-like leaves 



Fio. 118. — A, part of branch of a Little Club-moss (Selaginella Inaequifolia), 

 bearing a cone. Natural size. B, enlarged vertical section of a cone, showing 

 spore-cases, with large and small spores. 



covering the stems. The spore-oearing leaves are often 

 crowded towards the summits of certain branches, in some 

 cases forming well-marked cones (Fig. 117, s). The spores 



