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4. Fir Clubmoss. Lycopodium Selago, Linn. (Fig. 1246.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 233.) 



Stems scarcely creeping, though slight- 

 ly decumbent and rooting at the base ; 

 the forked branches forming dense, 

 ley el-topped tufts, 3 or 4 inches high, 

 completely covered with their crowded 

 but spreading dark-green leaves, all 

 lanceolate, 3 or 4 lines long, with a short 

 fine point. Capsules in the axils of the 

 upper leaves, not forming a distinct spike; 

 they are sometimes replaced by little 

 pedicellate leafy bulbs. 



In hilly pastures, in Europe, Ilussian 

 Asia, and North America, extending 

 from Spain, northern Italy, and the Cau- 

 casus to the Arctic regions, and in the 

 southern hemisphere. Frequent in all 

 hilly parts of Britain, except some of the 

 southern counties of England. Fr. sum- 

 mer and autumn. 



Fig. 1246. 



5. Marsh Clubmoss, 



Lycopodium inundatum, Linn. 

 (Fig. 1247.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 239.) 



Stems slender and creeping, scarcely 

 branched, seldom above 2 inches long, 

 with narrow-linear leaves, about 2 lines 

 long, all turned upwards. Fruiting 

 branches solitary, simple and erect, lj 

 to 3 inches high, with leaves like those 

 of the stem, but loosely scattered all 

 round. The upper end of the branch is 

 thickened into a fruiting spike, from f 

 to 1 inch long ; the bracts very like the 

 stem-leaves but broader at the base. 



In heathy bogs and sandy swamps, 

 dispersed over the greater part of Eu- 

 rope, especially the western States, and 

 in North America, but not recorded 

 either from Asia or the Arctic regions. 



Fig. 1247. 



