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Hutton Bushel moor near Scarborough, as a locality ; Mr. Ba- 
bington informs me it is abundant on Ingleborough. In Baines’ 
^ Flora of Yorkshire,’ and Turner and Dillwyn’s ‘ Botanist’s 
Guide,’ many other localities are enumerated. 
In Ireland it is less abundant : Mr. W. Thompson has ob- 
served it in the following localities. 
Antrim. — On Belfast mountains, &c. 
Donegal. — On Muckish. 
Down. — On Slieve Donard. 
Kerry. — On Mangerton ; Mr. Wilson found it on Brandon. 
Lycopodium alpinum occurs in alpine districts throughout 
Europe and Northern Asia ; and a very similar species is found 
in the British possessions in North America, and in the northern 
states of the Union; but a doubt is entertained whether the 
European and American species are exactly identical. 
There is a pretty good figure of this species in the ‘ Flora 
Danica,’* and another in Sowerby’s ^English Botany.’ f 
Our early botanists have so mixed up this with another con- 
tinental species, — Lycopodium complanatum^ — that it is impos- 
sible to decide to which their observations are to be referred. 
I have little doubt that Gerarde describes alpinum^ although his 
figure evidently represents complanatum, and Tragus appears 
to be unacquainted with it altogether, his figure being likewise 
that of complanatum. Dillenius, as remarked by Sir J. E. 
Smith, was well acquainted with both species, but unaccountably 
misquotes Tragus, Gerarde, Dalechamp, and the two Bauhins, 
under his description of L. alpinum : owing to this confusion 
it is unsafe to quote any of the virtues that have been assigned 
by these patriarchs of the science to either species. 
We are informed by Sir W. J. Hooker that L. alpinum is 
used by the inhabitants of Iceland as a die for their woollen 
cloths. A vast heap of Lycopodium alpinum lying before the 
priest’s house drew my attention, and on enquiry I found that 
it was used for the purpose of giving their wadmal a yellow 
die, which is done by merely boiling the cloth in water, with a 
quantity of the Lycopodium and some leaves of Vaccinium uli- 
* Flor. Dan. 79. 
I Eng. Bot. 234. 
