Plate 53. 
LYCOPODIUM alpinum, Linn. 
Savin-leaved Club-Moss. 
Lycopodium alpinum; stem elongated, creeping, rooting; primary branches 
distant or approximate, ascending, copiously dichotomous, fastigiate ; leaves 
quadrifarious, erect, imbricated; lateral ones lanceolate, falcate, acute, co- 
adunato-decurrent at the base, slightly concave, intermediate ones shorter, 
smaller, subulato-lanceolate, uniform and nearly free on both sides; fertile 
branches slightly elongated ; spikes cylindrical, terminal, solitary, sessile. 
Lycopodium alpinum. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 1567. PL Lapp. p. 417 . t. 11. Sw. 
Syn. Fil. p. 178. mild. Sp. PL v. 5. p. 20. Schk. Fil. *.161. Sm. Eng. 
Pot. t. 234. Hook, and Grev. En. Fil. in Hook. Pot. Misc. v. 2. p. 380. 
Sm.Eng.Fl.p. 335. Hook. FI. Bor. Am. v. 2. p. 267. Hook, and Am. 
Brit. FI. ed. 8. p. 597. Spring , Monogr. Lycop.part 1. p. 104 ,part ll._^. 18. 
Lycopodium Chamarense. Tarcz. in Herb. Hook. 
Lycopodium Sitchense. Buprecht, Crypiog. Vascnl. in Lmper. Borneo in Beitr. 
v. 2. Pjlanzenkunde d. Russ. Beichs, 1844-45, fasc. 3. p. 36 ? 
Stachygynandrum alpinum. Brest, Bot. Bern. etc. v. 3. p. 83. 
Hob. Elevated mountains, North of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland; 
found as far south as Derbyshire and Somerset. 
This is very much a northern species, found indeed in Swit¬ 
zerland, the Pyrenees, and the Vosges, but there on the lofty 
alps ; very general in Siberia and northern Asia, as well as in 
Norway and Lapland. In North America it appears to be pecu¬ 
liar to Newfoundland, Canada, and the Hudson Bay Territories; 
rare in the Rocky Mountains, north lat. 53°; not apparently ex¬ 
tending to the Pacific side of America, except the L . Sitchense 
of Ruprecht should prove to be the same, which is very probable. 
I cannot agree with Spring in his remark, “ II est possible 
que cette plante *ne soit qu’une variete du L. complanatum , pro¬ 
duce par F elevation de son habitat.” My numerous specimens 
are uniform in character, and I do not find any of them to pass 
into that species, which however seems to occupy its place in the 
United States. 
Plate 54. Fertile plant of Lycopodium alpinum , Linn.,— the natural size. 
Fig. 1. Portion of a branch, with leaves. 2. Bracteal leaf, with its capsules. 
3. Spores :— magnified. 
