Plate 50. 
LYCOPODIUM ANNOTINUM. 
Interrupted Club-Moss. 
Lycopodium annotinum; stems long, creeping; branches short, erect, simple or 
forked, often here and there constricted, as if from a fresh shoot arising 
from the apex of a former one; leaves subquinquefarious, more or less pa¬ 
tent, linear-lanceolate, mucronate, subspinuloso-serrated or entire; spikes 
terminal, oblong, sessile, cylindrical; bracts broad, cordate, acuminate, the 
base on each dentato-spinulose. 
Lycopodium annotinum. Linn. Sp.Pl.p. 1566. Sw. Syn. Til. p. 178. Willd. 
Sp. PI. v. 5. p. 23. Sckk. Til. p. 162. t. 162. Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 1727. 
Engl. Tl. v. 4. p. 835. Hook. ancl Jrn. Brit. Tl. ed. 8. p. 597. Spring, 
Monogr. Lycop. p. 77, and Part 2. p. 36. 
Lycopodium juniperifolium. Lam. and Be Cand. Tl. Tr . v. 2. p. 572. 
Lycopodium bryophyllum. Pr. Beliq. Hank. v. 1. p. 81. 
Lycopodium Heyneanum. TTall. Cat. n. 132. 
Lepidotis annotina. Beam. Prodr. TEth. p. 107. 
Hab. Stony mountains in the north of England, North Wales, and the Highlands 
of Scotland; frequent in the Cairngorum mountains. 
At the first aspect this has, in its mode of growth and in the 
copious short branches, a good deal the aspect of L. clavatum , 
but in fruit it may be at once recognized by its sessile (not pe¬ 
dunculated) and shorter spikes, by the more simple branches, 
and by the different leaves, broader and more lanceolate and 
acuminated, but never long-hair-pointed as in L. clavatum. Al¬ 
though by no means peculiar to Britain, or even to the conti¬ 
nent of Europe, it is nevertheless quite confined to the north¬ 
ern hemisphere, and chiefly to the northern or alpine regions 
there. In Great Britain it is never found in the middle or 
southern counties, nor in Ireland. In Europe, France is its 
most southern limit, whereas it extends north through Germany 
to Scandinavia, and thence westward to Dahuria, Kamtchatka, 
Behring’s Straits, Amur, to the Aleutian Islands, appearing again 
at Nutka Sound in North-west America, and thence on the east 
side of the Rocky Mountains to Canada, Newfoundland, and 
Greenland, Disco Island, etc., Dr. Lyall. In the United States it 
seems to be confined to the White Mountains of Massachusetts 
( Tuckerman ) and the Alleghanies {Drummond), and my specimens 
