588 CRYPT0GAM1A LYCOPOBlACEiE 



ally 3, acute ; scape 9 to 13 or 20 inches high, bearing at its summit a reddish-tawny 

 compound or bipinnale spike 1 or 2 to 4 or 5 inches in length, with the small cap 

 sales sessile in double rows on the subdivisions, or pinnules. 



Ilab. Kich hilly woodlands: frequent. Fr. May-July. 



Obs The R. granle, of Purth, has been reduced to a variety of this, by Trof 

 Torrey; and, I think, correctly so. One other species has been enumerated in 

 ih* U. States. 



Order3. Lycopodiaccae. 



I v t U iss Tribe. Flmcerless plants, with their sporulcs inclosed in axillary 

 thee*. Plants often Moss-like, and setnpervirmt, with creeping steins and imbri- 

 rated leaves. Vernation cirdnatc. Nat. Ord. 263. Lindl. 



472. LYOOPODIUM. /,. JV««. Gen. 800. 

 f [G reck, Lykos, a wolf, and I'ous, podos, a fool ; from a fancied resemblance.] 



Capsules axillary, sessile, 1 -celled,— some of them 2-valved, including 

 a fine powdery substance,— others 3-valved, containing a few large 

 globdte grains. 



a. Capsules in Spike* 

 ] Spikes pedunculate. * Leaves scattered. 



1 L CtAVlTtr*, L. Stem creeping, branching; branches ascending, 

 terete; leaves scattered, numerous, subulate-linear, incurved, capilla- 

 ceously acuminate ; spikes mostly in pairs, cylindnc, pedunculate : 

 scales ovate, acuminate, crose-denticulatc. Beck, Bot. p. 460. 

 Olavate LTCoronivM. Vulgo— Club-Moss. 



Stem 2 to 4 or 5 feet, or more, in length, rather stout, terete, leafy, prostrate, and 

 striking root with an occasional coarse fibre from the under side, brsncliing.-thc 

 bronchia 1 to 4 or 5 inches long, alternate, ascending, terete, often subdivided. 

 Leaves numerous, closely and irregularly scattered round the stem and branches, 

 3 to 5 lines in length, sessile, linear-subulate, rather erect and incurved, acute 

 and terminating in'a long, slender membranaceous ha.r-l.kc point (forming a kind 

 „f pencil, or hairy tuft, at the summit of the branches), entire, or the margin often 

 denticulate with very minute divaricate teeth, smooth, pale green. Spikes most y 

 in pairs (sometimes 1, rarely 3), yellowish, erect, on an ascending leafy branch- 

 like peduncle 2 or 3 to 4 or 5 inches long ; scopes ovate, sctaceously acuminate, the 

 margin minutely and erosely serrulate. 

 Hob. WoodUnde, and thickets : frequent. FY. July. 



• • Leaves apparently bifarious. 

 % L. coMrtANAT™,!.. Stem mostly trailing, branched ; branches 

 erect, or ascending, dichotomously and pedately subdivided at summit, 

 with the bianchlcts flatted and spreading ; leaves 4-rowed, unequal the 

 marginal ones connate, diverging at apex, the superficial ones solitary, 

 appressed; spikes cylindric, 4 to 8, on a long common peduncle. Beck, 

 Bot. p. 460. 



PlANKD, OK FLATTED LtCOPODIUM. 



Plant smooth. Stem 2 or 3 to 6 or 8 feel long, rather .lender, terete, or subcon, - 

 pressed, somewhat leafy, procumbent (sometimes 6 to 12 inchei long, and nearly 



