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summit of the branches without any footstalk, and always 
singly. It is a rare species in Britain, only favouring 
the mountains of Scotland and Wales. 
In Sweden and Norway it is very abundant; indeed, 
it grows freely in pine forests throughout the North of 
Europe and North America. 
51. Lycopodium inundatum, Marsh Club-Moss. 
Stems creeping. Branches few and short, creeping. Leaves 
narrow, pointed, entire at the margin. Spike solitary, sessile. 
Bracts broad at the base, extended into an awl-shaped point, 
with one sharp tooth on either side. Capsules spherical. 
The Marsh Club-moss has stout, short, slightly- branch- 
ing roots, and a prostrate stem very little branched. It 
frequents marshy ground on 
heaths and commons, princi- 
pally in the southern coun- 
ties, preferring situations 
where the turf has been 
peeled. In the winter the 
plant dies, all except the point 
of the stem, the dead plant 
turning black as if charred. 
When spring returns, the 
small portion which has re- 
tained its vitality begins to 
grow ; presently it puts up an erect branch, about an 
inch in height and densely leafy, at the summit of which 
appears one large cone, fully as long as the branch. 
The stem extends yet a little further, and perhaps pro- 
duces a horizontal branch before its period of decay 
arrives and its verdure turns to the dark dull tint, and 
serves to lengthen the black line left by last year’s ruin. 
