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FERNS. 
[Lycopodium . 
2.— LYCOPODIUM ANNOTINUM. 
INTERRUPTED CLUII MOSS. 
(Plate 5, fig. 2.) 
Ciia. — S tem procumbent. Leaves in five rows, lanceolate, acute, 
spreading. Spikes simple, scales brpadly ovate, imbricated. 
Syn. — Lycopodium Annotinum, Linn., Willd., Spreng., Smith, Hooker , 
Ehrh., Huds., Light/., With., Pursh, Gray. — Lepidotis Annotina, Beatev. 
Fig .—E. B. 1727 .—FI. Dan. 127.-- DiU Muse 63, /. 9. — Schk. fil. 162. 
Des. — Boot stoutly fibrous, scattered. Stem very long and 
trailing, dichotomously branched, of a dullish green color, and 
extending in length from year to year. Branches simple or nearly 
so when fruitful, upright at first, afterwards becoming decumbent. 
Leaves in 5 rows, lanceolate, acute, spreading, entire or very slightly 
serrated. Fertile spike solitary, sessile, terminal, an inch long, 
scales very short, very broad, pointed, and imbricated. 
Sir J. E. Smith says that the scales of the spike of one season falling off, 
the stem thus left naked gives rise the following season to leaves, hut these not 
being so numerous as in the other parts of the plant, the stem acquires an 
interrupted habit.* 
Sit. — On the highest Welch and Scottish Mountains. 
Hab. — Pretty frequent between 500 and 850 yards on the mountains of 
Clova, and the W. of Aberdeenshire ; I have never seen it above 900 or below 
400 yards ; Glen Dole, Forfar, and mountains adjacent ; Ben-na-Baird, Loch- 
na-garr, &c. Aberdeen, Mr. H. Watson. Freewater, Rosshire, Mr. Staples. 
Hoy Hill, Orkney, Rev. C. Clouston. Summit of Cairngorum, Sir W. J. Hooker. 
Still found on Glydcr Vawr, Snowdon, but reduced to a solitary root and when 
last seen (1836) without fructification, Mr. W. Wilson. Not in Mr. Mackay’s 
“ Flora Hibernica.” 
Geo. — Europe in mountainous countries, from Canada to Pensylvania, and 
in N. Asia. 
3.— LYCOPODIUM INUNDATUM. 
MARSH CLUB MOSS. 
(Plate 5, fig. 3.) 
Cha. — Stem creeping. Branches simple, erect. Leaves and 
scales linear, acute, curved upwards. Spikes solitary. 
.Syn. — Lycopodium inundatum of most Botanists . — Plananthus inundatus, 
Beauv. 
Fig. — E.B. 239. — Flo. Dan. 336 . — Dillen Muse 62 /. 7 (good). 
Des. — Stem very closely appressed to the ground, one to two 
* I cannot reconcile this to the appearance of my specimens, but rather suppose that as in 
the former species the spike wholly falls off, and the next yoar's shoot puts forth more vigorous 
leaves than those which terminated the old stem, thus giving the jointed appearance which the 
plant presents, but I have never seen it in a fresh state, and therefore write this with hesitation. 
