LYCOPODIUM. 
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This little Club-moss has excellent taste in its choice 
of habitat. On the moors in the North of England, 
Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, where little rivulets paint 
a verdant line amid the brown heather, and miniature 
waterfalls bubble over tiny rocks, this little Lycopod 
twines its stem amid the damp sand on the margin, or 
among the marsh mosses which affect the same locale. 
But it does not restrict its favour to the little brooks; 
we find it plentifully on the spongy margin of the lordly 
Tees, and many another of our northern streams, every- 
where shedding its vegetable sulphur and buds, and 
raising its delicate progeny. 
It is found in mountainous places in most European 
countries, and also in North America. 
53. Lycopodium alpinum. Savin-leaved Club- 
Moss. 
Stem long, creeping. Branches ascending, much forked, 
tufted. Leaves erect, overlapping, lanceolate, entire at the 
margin. Cone seated on the summit of the branch, solitary. 
The Savin-leaved Club-moss is so called because of 
the resemblance of its branches to those of the Savin- 
tree, Juniperus Sabinus. It throws out its stem to a 
great extent, which adheres closely to the ground, and is 
mostly hidden by the sward ; but such is not the case 
with the clustering branches which rise perpendicularly 
from the stem at short distances; their glaucous hue 
and plentiful forks several of them bearing one or two 
cones, being attractive objects. The leaves fold closely 
over one another, and are arranged in four rows, thereby 
giving a quadrangular appearance to the branches ; they 
are concave, dilated at the base, and terminating in a 
