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FERNS. 
[Lycopodium . 
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 which is our Lycopodium selago, the 
fruit is not confined to the apex of the branches, but is found in the axils of the 
leaves throughout the whole plant. The root groivsfrom every part of the stem 
which touches the ground. 
LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM. 
COMMON CLUB-MOSS. FOXTAIL. STAG’S HORN. WOLF’S CLAW. 
(Plate Vflfig. 1.) 
Cha. — Stem trailing. Leaves linear, incurved, hair-pointed. 
Thecse in naked, stalked, double spikes. Scales ovate, serrate. 
Syn. — Lycopodium clavatum of most botanists. — Muscus clavatus seu Lyco- 
podium, Ger., Park., Sfc. — Lycopodium officinale, Neck. — Lepidotis clavata, 
Beauv. 
Fig. — E. B. 224. — Ger. 1562. — Phytologist, No. 1, p. 1. 
Des. — Root 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 setae. Scales of the spikes broadly ovate, 
pointed, and dentate or serrate. Thecse 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 16; in addition to which it is 
said to be used to ameliorate wines, but its emetic properties render this doubtful. 
Sit. and Had. — 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. Charlewood Forest, Leicestershire, 
Rev. A. Bloxam. Todmorden, Lancashire, Mr. W. Wilson. Settle, Yorkshire, 
Mr. J. Tatham. Derbyshire, Dr. Howitt. Coleshill, Warwickshire, Rev. W. Bree. 
Notts, Mr. T. H. 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. H. 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. 
