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LYCOPODIUM DENDROIDEUM. 
Tree-like Club-moss, 
CRYPTOGAMIA STACK YOPTERIDES, WiUd.—^AT,OKi>:LYCOPODINEMyBrmn. 
Gen. Char. — Capsuke uniloculares, axillaresj sessiles, aliae bivalves, farina 
repletae, aliae 2-S valves, corpusculis 1-6 globosis, — Br. 
Lycopodium dendroideum ; caule erecto inferne denudato, superne ra- 
mose, ramis alternis dichotomis patentibus, foliis lineari-lanceolatis 
subsexfariis patulis, spicis solitariis terminalibus sessilibus. 
L. dendroideum, Mich. Fl. Bar. Am. v. ii. p. 282. — Swartz, Syn. Fil. p. 178. 
— WiLLD. Sp. PI. V. 5. p. 21. — ScHKUHR, FU. 1. 164. — AiTON, Hort. Kerv. 
ed. 2. V. 5. p. 4.93.— Dill. Muse. t. 67- 
L. obscurum. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 1566. 
Root much creeping, and throwing out stiff, wiry fibres. Stem about 6 or 8 
inches high, at the base undivided, and with very few appressed leaves ; 
upward much branched, with the branches spreading, slightly and grace- 
fully curved back, opposite, and again frequently divided in a dichoto- 
mous manner. Leaves a beautiful bright green, shining, mostly arranged 
in 6 rows, linear-lanceolate, entire, spreading, but slightly incurved, de- 
current at the base. Fructification in single cylindrical sessile spikes 
from the extremities of the stem or branches, at first yellow-green, soon 
becoming yellow-brown, and formed of numerous imbricated, cordate, 
membranaceous scales, having within them a bivalved, reniform, coriaceo- 
membranaceous capsule, of one cell, and containing numerous minute, 
spherical, yellow, sporules. 
This elegant species of Lycopodium seems to be very com- 
mon in North America, according to Michaux, from Canada 
and New England to the mountainous parts of Carolina. It 
well deserves a place in every garden, being hardy, according 
to Hortus Kewensis ; although, in our collection, it has been 
found to succeed best in a cool but airy part of the green- 
house. 
We have abundant dried specimens from Mr Goldie, ga- 
thered at Montreal : our living ones were sent from the same 
country by Mr Kippin. 
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