Plate 52. 
LYCOPODIUM SELAGINOIDES. 
Lesser Alpine Club-Moss. 
Lycopodium selaginoides; stems slender, loosely decumbent, sparsely rooting; 
branches ascending, simple or dichotomous, short; fertile branches elon¬ 
gated ; leaves lax, broad-lanceolate, acuminate, more or less spinoso-ciliate; 
spikes terminal, sessile, subcylindrical; bracts resembling the leaves, but 
larger and more ciliato-spinose; capsules of two kinds; one 2-valved, filled 
with echinated dust-like spores; the other 3-4-valved, containing 3-4 large 
globose granules. 
Lycopodium selaginoides. Linn. Bp.Pl. p. 1565. Sw. Syn. Pil.p. 181. Willd. 
Sp. PI. v. 5. p. 28. Sm. Fngl. Pot. t. 1148. Fngl. PI. v. 4. p. 332. 
Schk. Fil. t. 165. Hook, and Am. Brit. FI. ed. 8. p. 597. 
Selaginella spinosa. Beauv. Prodr. d'AEtheog. p. 112. Bpring , Monogr. Jjycop. 
Part 2. p. 59. 
Selaginella selaginoides. Link , Fil. Hort. Berol.p. 158. Asa Gray, Man. of 
Bot. lUust.p. 604. 
Lycopodium ciliatum. Lam. FI. Fr. v. 1. p. 32. 
Hob. Frequent in moist alpine pastures, in boggy and springy spots in the north 
of England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland ; but descending to the sandy 
coasts of the sea-level in Anglesea and Lancashire. 
This is the smallest and most delicate of our British Lyco¬ 
podia , and is peculiarly a northern species; or if reaching to the 
south of Europe, as in the Pyrenees and in Switzerland (whence 
I have fine specimens from Professor Gouan), is confined to lofty 
mountains ; extending north to Norway, Lapland, and Greenland, 
and eastward to Siberia. In North America, it is found in Ca¬ 
nada, and the east side of the Rocky Mountains: in the United 
States, only in New Hampshire, Michigan, and about Lake Su¬ 
perior (Asa Gray). 
Of the British Lycopodia ) this is the only one that bears two 
kinds of fructifications—(1) bivalved reniform capsules (anthe- 
ridia ), with dust-like spores; and (2) 3-4-lobed and 3-4-valved 
capsules (oophoridia), bearing as many large grains, or seeds, as 
there are valves. The first of these is characteristic of true Lyco¬ 
podium ; the second of Selaginella , a group in general so well 
marked by the jungermannioid and, generally, tetrastichous and 
dimorphous leaves. But the importance of these genera is much 
