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LYCOPODIUM, Linn. CLUB-MOSS. 
('From Xwca;, a wolf, and mv;, vsoSog, a foot; the ends of the stems appearing 
like the hairy feet of some animals.) 
PLATE OF GENERA, FIG. XIX. 
A very extensive yenus of no less than 140 species, found in all parts of the 
world, particularly in the colder climates. Six only are natives of Britain. 
Always taken for and called Mosses by the old Botanists; and they do indeed 
resemble that tribe in many of their external characters, having sessile, smooth, 
entire, or at most serrated leaves. Their fruit, however, is greatly different ; 
most species of the Lycopodiums bear it in terminal scaly spikes, in a. few others, 
among ivhich is our Lycopodium selayo, the fruit is not confined to the apex of 
the branches, but is found in the axils of tlie leaves throughout the whole plant. 
The root grows from every part of the stem which touches the ground. 
LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM. 
COMMON CLUB-MOSS. FOX-TAIL, STAG’S- HORN. WOLF’S-CLAW. 
(Plate 6, fig. 1.) 
Cha. — Stem trailing. Leaves linear, incurved, hair-pointed. 
Theca? in naked, stalked, double spikes. Scales ovate, serrate. 
Syn. — Lycopodium clavatum of most Botanists. — Muscus clavatus sen 
Lycopodium, Ger. Park., Ike. — Lycopodium officinale, Neck'. — Lepidotis 
clavata, Beauv. ' * 
Fig.— E. B. 224 .—Ger. 1562, 
Des. — Boot fibrous, scattered. Stem branched, several feet long, 
lying on the ground, bright green. Leaves crowded, linear, 
curved, with a long, diaphanous, hair-like point. Spike of fruit 
cylindrical, usually in pairs, - yellow, about an inch long, supported 
upon a rigid, upright, long stem, which is void of leaves, but set at 
intervals, with whorls of very fine, short seem. Scales of the spikes 
broadly ovate, pointed, and dentate or serrate. Theca' large, round, 
one to three, attached to the base of each scale, and filled with a 
very fine yellow powder. 
Vir. — F or the virtues of this plant see page 12, in addition to which it is 
said to be used to ameliorate wines ; but its emetic properties render this 
doubtful. 
Sit. & IIab. — On hill-sides, particularly in the northern part of the king- 
dom, but not ascending to so lofty a situation 1 as some other species. Hoy Hill, 
Orkney, Rev. C. Clouston. Plentiful in the Highlands, in Cumberland, and 
in North Wales, Mr. H. Watson. Derbyshire, Dr. Howitt. Settle, Yorksh., 
Mr. J. Tatham. Notts, Mr. T. H. Cooper. Coleshill, Warwickshire, Rev. W. 
Bree. Norfolk, Miss Bell. Sussex, Rev. G. E. Smith. Somerset, Mr. A. 
Southby. Dartmoor, &c., Mr. Jones. Oxfordshire, Mr. Baxter. Lane between 
Dorking and Leith Hill, and on Addington Hills, beyond Croydon, Surrey ; 
also on the high heathy ground above Tring, Herts, Mr. W. Pamplin. Near 
Todmorden, Lancashire, Mr. W. Wilson. — Ike. : Kelly’s Glen, Ballynascorney, 
and other places on the Dublin Mountains, Mr. Mackay. 
Geo. — In most of the northern parts of Europe and Asia, and from Canada 
to Pennsylvania in America. 
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