have looked for it in Madeira, the Azores, St. Helena, Ceylon, 
Khasya, in Ecuador (at elevations here of 14-1500 feet above 
the level of the sea), in St. Helena, and Tristan d’Acunha; yet 
my herbarium includes well-marked specimens from these dif¬ 
ferent localities. 
In Scotland, Lightfoot tells us, the Highlanders use this plant 
instead of alum, to fix colours in dyeing; and that they some¬ 
times take an infusion of it as an emetic and cathartic, though it 
operates violently, and, unless in a small dose, brings on giddi¬ 
ness and convulsions. “No wonder,” adds Sir James Smith, 
“ that a decoction kills the lice of swine and oxen, as Linnaeus 
asserts in c Elora Suecica.’ ” 
Plate 54. Fertile plant of Lycopodium Selago , Linn .,—natural size. Pig. 1 
and 2. Stem-leaves. 3. Capsule, with its bractea or floral leaf. 4. Spores:—■ 
magnified. 
