Dans les theatres elle sert pour produir les eclairs et 
pour garnir les flambeaux des furies ; ce qui donne une 
belle flamme. 
Le Lycopode jouait un grand role dans les ceremonies 
religieuses des Druides." 
SELAGINELLA Beauv. 1805. 
Small moss-like plants with numerous branching 
stems. Leaves mostly minute, scale-like, 4— many-ranked. 
Sporangia axillary. 
t Leaves appressed, 
I. S. rupestris (L.) Spring. 
Mmscus terrcstris 7'epens Virglnianus & , Moris. 
Hist. 624. sect. 15. t. 5. f. 4. 
Lycopodlum rupestre L. I.e. 11 01^ 
Selag'inella rupestris S^r'mg^ i84o. in Mart. Fl. 
Brasil. i : pt.2. 118. Eaton^ in Gray, Man, 698. 
Undei'W,\\\\\\,Y\. i: 44; Nat. Ferns 137; in 
Britt. Man. 26. 67?//^?, Fern Allies 139. 
Plants 3-10 cm. high, growing in colonies ; stems slen- 
der, I mm. or thicker, with numerous short, very leafy 
branches; leaves imbricated, many- ranked, awl-shaped, 
awned, ciliate and about 2 mm. in length. 
On rocks. 
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