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Class I * ACROGENS. 



Mowerless plants, but with the stem and leaves usually 

 distinguishable. 



LICOPODIACJEM 



Acrogens, usually moss-like plants, with creeping stems and 

 imbricated leaves ; or they are stemless, with erect, awl-shaped 

 leaves. The spore-cases are from one to three-celled, placed 

 between the stem and leaf, sessile, either bursting by distinct 

 valves or not opening, and containing powdery matter, or minute 

 seeds marked at the apex with three radiating, elevated ridges. 

 Plants intermediate between mosses and ferns. — Natives most 

 abundantly of hot damp climates. 



LYCOPODIUM. (Club-moss.) 



Generic Character. (Cryptogamia Mlices.) Thecse or spore-cases 

 kidney-shaped, one-celled, two-valved, with many sporules (or 

 seeds), which are very minute and powdery. 



The name arises from the Greek for a wolf mi foot, from 

 the form of the root. Several species of this genus are 



* Second Class of Lindley. 



