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vation (a single root only), Mr. W. Wilson. Down to the coast in Aberdeen- 
shire, Dr. Murray . — Ike. : Aghla and Barnesmore mountains, Donegal, Mr. 
E. Murphy. Barnesmoor Mountain, and Mourne Mountain, Mr. Mackay. 
Brandon Mountain. Mr. W. Wilson. 
Geo. — All the Northern and mountainous part of Europe, as Lapland, Ger- 
many, Switzerland, Pyrenees, the Tyrol, Sweden, Norway, Russia, &c. Also 
in Canada and Siberia. 
6 .— LYCOPODIUM SELAGO. 
Fill CLUB-MOSS. UPBIGI1T FIR-MOSS. 
(Plate 5, fig. 6.) 
Cha. — Stem erect, clichotomously branched, fiat at top. Leaves 
in 8 rows. Thecae axillary# 
Syn. — Plananthus selago, Beauv. — Selago vulgaris, Dillw. — Lycopodium 
abietiforme, Gray. — Lycopodium selago of other Botanists. 
Fig. — E. B. 233 .—Flo. Dan. 104. — Dill. Mus. t. 5G, /. 1. 
Des. — Hoot tufted, fibrous. Stems two to six inches high, grow- 
ing quite erect, one issuing only from the root, and becoming 
divided dichotomously until they form a cluster of from 6 to 
10 ultimate divisions ; the upper fruitful branches are, however, 
scarcely more than forked. Leaves in 8 rows of a dark shining 
green color, crowded, lanceolate, entire, acute, convex on the outer 
side, a little spreading, and curved upwards. The fruit is not borne 
in a terminal spike, as in the other species, but in the axils of the 
common leaves, all down the upper part of the stem. Capsules 
large, kidney-shaped, regularly two-valved, opening by a transverse 
fissure, and scattering minute, yellow, globular, smooth seeds. 
This plant is likewise vivaparous, producing not only capsules of seeds, but 
occasionally also curious petioled buds, which consist of three or four dif- 
ferently-sized ovate leaves ; they arc irregularly placed in the axils of the 
common leaves, that is, in the place of the capsules. 
Sit. — O n mountain sides, &c. 
Hab.— I t attains the summit of Bcn-na-Muich-dhu, the loftiest of the 
northern Grampians or Cairngorum range, and the second summit of Britain 
(4320 feet). Common everywhere on the hilly tracts of Britain, especially 
the Scottish Highlands. — Eng. : Hclvellyn, Skiddaw, &c. ; at Widdy Bank, 
Tcesdalc ; on the loftiest rocks of Dartmoor, and above Edale Chapel, Derby- 
shire, Mr. H. C. Watson. Common about Settle, Mr. J. Tatham. Waldron 
Down, Sussex. Near Bristol, Miss Worsley. Shotover Hill, Oxon, Mr. 
Baxter. Mansfield Forest, near the Blidworth Gate, Mr. T. H. Cooper. 
Coleshill, Warwickshire (rare), Rev. W. Bree. Weusley dale, Yorkshire, 
Mr. J. Ward. Once seen on Woolston Moss, near Warrington, Mr. Wilson. 
— Wal. : Frequent on the Welch mountains, where a variety is found with 
the leaves widely spreading, Mr. W. Wilson. — Ire. : Lough Bray and moun- 
tains, in south of Ireland (frequent), Irish Flora. Known in Kerry as Virgin 
Mary’s Furze. 
Geo. — Over Europe and North- America. (No! in Fursh.) 
