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LYCOPODIACE.B. 



-tm the simple terminal spike ; opening transversely. Sporbs 

 copious, sulphur color. 



*0. VULGATUM, L. Common Adder' s-tongue. 



a JXf"? S\ ond l }°™ ab °ut the middle, orate-oblong, obtuse, eesaik, about 3 inch* 

 lone, shorter than the spike: roof fibrous. 

 Motet woods, \ery rare. June. 



Order 136. LYCOPODIA'GEJtJ, — Cluh- Moss- Fern. 



rtZhZOSHf'' USl -i aVy fMss-Jike aspect, with the sol id and often woody stems Attkfc 

 S£vl Z \tl ses * lc « wl - sh(l Pfor lanceolate, patent and simple leaves bearing ti* 

 g«nu B (F SP ^ lCQm semU m th€ir a * il * : chiefly represented by the typical 



Fig. 3. Lycopodium, nearly of the natural size; a, a. leaf from the spike of 

 fructification, with the'sporecases in its axils, and spores falling out; 6, a group of 

 four spores magnified; c, the same separated. 



Fig. 4. A Moss (Polytrichium) of the natural size ; «, a magnified theca, from 

 "which the lid or operculem, o, has been removid, shcwiDgthe peristome ; c, a por- 

 tion of the outer and inner peristome highly magnified. 



LYCOPODIUM, L,, Spreng. Club-Moss. 



Gr. lukos, a wolf, and pons, foot; from no obvious resemblance. 



SrORE-CASES of only one kind, coriaceous, flattened, usually 

 'kidney shaped, l-celled ; opening fcy a transverse line round 



