PRICKLY CLUB-MOSS. 
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PHICKLY CLUB-MOSS, {natural size). 
Lycopodium Selaginoides, Linneus. 
This species, which, without much reason, has obtained the 
name of the Prickly Club-Moss, is distributed over the hilly 
districts of the North of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. 
It delights in the vicinity of those little rills so common in 
hilly countries, and whose course is so often marked by a 
sinuous line of vivid green, delighting the heart of the botanist, 
and leading him on from crag to crag, regardless of the crum- 
bling debris and detached masses of stone which in such spots 
too often give way beneath his tread, and leap with awful bounds 
down the hill-side, till they find a new resting-place in the abyss 
below. On such localities has this interesting little plant fixed 
for its home, and here it may ever be found, the companion of 
saxifrages and the rarer ferns. 
The English and Welch counties, concerning which I have 
authentic habitats for this species, are few in number. 
Anglesea. — Aberfiraw common is given as a locality in the 
Rev. Mr. Davies’ ‘Welsh Botanology.’ 
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