FAMILY IV, LYCOPODIACE/E Lind. 
E VERGREEN, creeping perennials, with numerous small, 
crowded leaves in several or many ranks. Spores without 
elaters, all alike, marked with three radiating lines. Spo- 
rangia either in the axils of ordinary leaves, or in terminal spikes 
in the axils of modified leaves. In our limits one genus with eight 
species. 
LYCOPODIUM L. 
V 
198. L. Selago L. Fir Club Moss. Stems erect, 2-9 inches 
long ; branches several times forked, forming a flat-topped cluster ; 
sporangia in the axils of the crowded, glossy green, unaltered 
leaves, all down the stem, and so not forming a distinct spike ; 
midrib of the leaves obscure. Mountain summits. Mt. Watatic, 
Mass, and frequent in the three northern states. Sept.-Dee. 
Everywhere in the cooler portions of the globe. 
Figured in Hooker’s “British Ferns,” and by Anne Pratt. 
199. L. lucidulum Michx. Shining Club Moss. Stems as- 
cending, 6-12 inches long, forked ; sporangia in irregular zones in 
the axils of shorter leaves interspersed with longer ones ; leaves 
glossy green in eight rows, some of them turned downward ; mid- 
rib distinct. Common in damp woods. Northern United States 
and eastern Asia. Sept. -Dec. 
Figured in Knobel’s “Ferns and Evergreens of New England.” 
