Plate 54. 
LYCOPODIUM Selago, Linn . 
Fir Club-Moss. 
Lycopodium Selago; stems four to six inches high, rooting* at the base, rigid, 
dichotomously branched, suberect, tufted; branches obtuse, all densely 
leafy; leaves uniform, erect, and imbricated or often patent and even re- 
flexed below, lanceolate, subpungently acuminate, rigid, entire; capsules in 
the axils of the superior and scarcely altered leaves. 
Lycopodium Selago. Linn. Sp. PL p. 1665. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 176. Willd. Sp. 
PI. v. 5. p. 49. Kaulf. En. Ml. p. 19. Gaudich. in Ereyc. Voy. Bot. jo. 289. 
Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 233. Engl. El. v. p. 333. El. Ban. t. 104. Hook. and 
Am. Brit. El. ed. 8. p. 597. Spring , Monogr. Lycop. p. 19. Schk. Fil. 
t. 159. Asa Gray , Man. of Bot. Illustr. p. 603. 
Lycopodium recurvum. Kitaib. in Willd. Sp. PI. v. 5. p. 50. 
Lycopodium insulare. Carm. in Linn. Trans, v. 12. p. 509. 
Lycopodium Ceylanicum. Spring , Monogr. Lycop.part 1 . p. 37, part 2. p. 16. 
Lycopodium suberectum. Lowe in PI. Azor. in JJn. Itin. 
Lycopodium densura. Lam. El. Er. v.l. p. 33. 
Lycopodium axillare. Roxb. in Beats. El. of St. Helena, p. 312. 
Lycopodium densum, j3. Hook. fit. Bot. Antarct. Voy. v. 1 .p. 116. 
Plananthus Selago. Beauv. Prodr. d’TEtheog. p. 100; and P. patens, ejusd. 
p. 101. 
Selago foliis facie Abietis. Raii Syn.p. 106. 
Selago vulgaris, Abietis rubrse facie. Bill. Muse. p. 435. t. 56./. 1. 
Muscus terrestris abietiformis. Raii Syn. ed. 2. p. 27. Moris, v. 3. p. 624. 
sect. 15. t. 5./. 9. 
Hab. England, Scotland, and Ireland, but chiefly in northern and mountain dis¬ 
tricts; particularly abundant in the Highland alps. It has been found, 
though very rarely, in the extreme southern counties, “ Cornwall, Dorset, 
Hants, and Sussexand on Eelthorpe Dogs, Norfolk, at an elevation little 
above the level of the sea. 
As might be expected, with a plant which in Great Britain 
prefers the northern and elevated mountain regions, it does not 
create surprise to learn that it is abundant in the temperate and 
cold regions of the continent of Europe and northern Asia, and 
in North America from Carolina (summits of the mountains) to 
the extreme north, and to Greenland and Spitzbergen, etc., as is 
really the case *. also it inhabits the Falkland Islands in the 
southern hemisphere, and New Zealand; but one would hardly 
