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Scotland, and is found occasionally, but less frequently, in simi- 
lar situations in Ireland. 
This Club-moss is a handsome and interesting plant. I have 
heard of a lady who had a ball-dress ornamented with its grace- 
ful festoons ; and Linneus relates that in Lapland he saw the 
boys with their heads decorated with chaplets or wreaths formed 
of it, the double spikes projecting on all sides, a sight which 
reminded him of the fauns and satyrs : and Tragus says that 
the girls in Germany make it into chaplets and belts.f 
Old Gerarde has some remarks on the subject, which are so 
pleasant that I think my readers will not object to my quoting 
them at length. There is another kinde of mosse which 1 
have not elsewhere found than upon Hampstead Heath, neere 
unto a little cottage, growing close upon the ground amongst 
bushes and brakes, which I have shewed unto divers surgeons 
of London that have walked thither with mee for their further 
knowledge in simples, who have gathered this kinde of mosse, 
whereof some have made them hatbands, girdles, and also bands 
to tye such things as they have before gathered, for the which 
purpose it most fitly served ; some pieces whereof are six or 
eight foot long, consisting as it were of many hairy leaves set 
upon a tough string, very close couched and compact together, 
from which is also sent forth certain other branches like the 
first : in sundry places there be sent down fine little strings, 
which serve instead of roots, wherewith it is fastened to the up- 
per part of the earth, and taketh hold likewise upon such things 
as grow next unto it. There spring also from the branches bare 
and naked stalkes, on which grow certaine eares as it were like 
the catkins or blowings of the hasell-tree, in shape like a little 
club or the reed mace, saving that it is much lesser, and of a 
yellowish white colour, very wel resembling the claw of a wolfe, 
whereof it tooke his name, which knobby catkins are altogether 
barren, and bring forth neither seed nor floure.”! 
* Vidi aliquando, grato spectaciilo pueros Lapponum ex hos musco serta 
confecisse capitique suo eadem imposuisse, horrentibus undique spicis disticbis, 
hirsutie Faunis et Satyris similes. — Flora Lapponica, 339. 
f Virgines et serta et cingula ex hoc musco conficiunt. — Tragus, 554. 
t Ger. Em. 1562. 
