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FERNS. 
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2.— LYCOPODIUM ANNOTINUM. 
INTERRUPTED CLUB-MOSS. 
(Plate TJffig- 2.) 
Ciia. — Stem procumbent. Leaves in five rows, lanceolate, acute, 
spreading. Spikes simple, scales broadly ovate, imbricated. 
Svn. — Lycopodium annotinum, Linn., Willd., Spreng., Smith, Hooker, Ehrh., 
Hurls., Light/., With., Picrsh, Gray. — Lepidotis annotina, Beauv. 
Fig. — E. B. 1727.— Flo. Dan. 127.— Dill. Muse. 63, /. 9. — Schk. fit. 162. 
Des. — Root of stout and scattered fibres. 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, afterw r ards becoming decumbent. 
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, hut 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 whole 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. 
Sit. — On the highest Welsh 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. 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, but 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.’ 
Geo. — Europe, in mountainous countries ; in America, from Canada to Penn- 
sylvania ; also in North Asia. 
3.— LYCOPODIUM INUNDATUM. 
MARSH CLUB-MOSS. 
(Plate VSjTfig. 3.) 
Ciia. — Stem creeping. Branches simple, erect. Leaves and 
scales linear, acute, curved upwards. Spikes solitary. 
