27. LYCOPODIUM Dodon. 1567. 
Museum terrestrem non fauci hac aetate appellant : 
Ge7'mani Beerlap,^ Gurtelkraut ^ Seilkraut ^ Haarshar 
Teuffels Klauwen : Belgae Wolf sclatiwen appellant : 
unde Lycopodium & Pes lupi a nobis did coepit . DocL 
1583. Stirp. Hist. 470. 
Mosslike perennials with creeping or erect stems of 
variable lengths. Leaves small, simple, imbricated, or 
4— many-ranked. Sporecases borne in the axils of the 
leaves. 
t Leai>es of one kind, 
* Sporecases dome in the axils of ordiiiary leaves, 
% Leaves ascending or ap pressed. 
1. L. selago L. 
Lycopodium selago \., Sp. PI. 1102. Eaton ^ in 
(iray, Man. 695. Underzv, in 111. Fl. i : 40 ; Nat. 
Ferns j 30 ; in Britt. Man. 24. Clute^ Fern Allies 
I \2. 
ChUB-^ross. 
Flants.6-1.5 dm. high, growing in colonies; stems 
numerous, erect, dichotomous ; leaves lanceolate-acumi- 
nate. 
O n r o c k s . iVutumn* 
St(inv Man NionntJiin, Va.. Steele. 
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