FERNS. 
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Lycopodium .] 
Sit. and IIab. — On hill-sides, particularly in the northern part of the 
kingdom, but not ascending to so lofty a situation as some other species. 
Hoy Hill, Orkney, Rev. C. Clouston. Plentiful in the Highlands, in Cumberland, 
and in North Wales, Mr. H. C. Watson. Cliarnwood Forest, Leicestershire, 
Rev. A. Bloxam. Todmorden, Lancashire, Mr. W. Wilson. Settle, Yorkshire, 
Mr. J. Tatham. Derbyshire, Dr. Howitt. Coleshi 11, Warwickshire, Rev. W. Bree. 
Notts, Mr. T. II. Cooper. Oxfordshire, Mr. Baxter. Somerset, Mr. A. Southby. 
Woking Heath, Surrey, between the Canal and Railway, 200 or 300 yards S.-W. 
of the Station-house, Mr. II. C. Watson. 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. Sussex, Rev. G. E. Smith . — 
Ire. ; 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. 
2.— LYCOPODIUM ANNOTINUM. 
INTERRUPTED CLUB-MOSS. 
(Plate V, fig. 2.) 
Ciia. — S tern procumbent. Leaves in five rows, lanceolate, acute, 
spreading. Spikes simple, scales broadly ovate, imbricated. 
Syn. — Lycopodium annotinum, Linn., Willd., Spreny., Smith, Hooker, Ehrh., 
Huds.. Liyhtf., With., Pursh, Gray. — Lepidotis annotina, Beauv. 
Fig.— E. B. 1727.— Flo. Dan. 127.— Dill. Muse. 63,/. 9 .—Schk.fil. 162. 
Des. — Root of stout fibres on the forks of the stem. Stem very 
long and trailing, dichotomously branched, of a dullish-green colour, 
and extending in length from year to year. Branches simple or 
nearly so when fruitful, upright at first, afterwards becoming de- 
cumbent. Leaves, in five 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, but these not being 
so numerous as in the other parts of the plant, the stem acquires an interrupted 
habit.” 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 year’s 
shoot puts forth more vigorous leaves than those which terminated the old stem* 
thus giving the jointed appearance which the plant presents ; hut I have nevei seen 
it in a fresh state, and therefore write this with hesitation. 
Sit. — On the highest Welsh and Scottish mountains. 
FIab. — Pretty frequent between 500 and 850 yards on the mountains of 
Clova, and in the W. of Aberdeenshire; I have never seen it above 900 or below 
400 yards; Glen Dole, Forfar, and mountains adjacent; Ben-na-Bourd, Loch- 
na-Garr, &c. Aberdeen, Mr. II. C. Watson. Freewater, Ross-shire, Mr. Staples. 
Hoy Hill, Orkney, Rev. C. Clouston. Summit of Cairngorum, Sir W. J. Hooker. 
Still found on Glyder Vawr, Snowdon, hut reduced to a solitary root, and when 
last seen (1836), without fructification, Mr. W. Wilson. Charnwood Forest, 
Leicestershire, Rev. A. Bloxam. This is remarkable as being the only English 
habitat recorded. (See * Naturalist,’ vol. ii, page 135.) Not in Mr. Mackay’s 
‘ Flora Hibernica.’ 
