The Lycopodium annotinum of botanists. A very distant 
plant, easily recognised by the interruptedleaiing.^j^ 
" at distant' 1 — ~ ”**" 
steins, the leaves being at distant intervals rnuuu 
in size and less spreading in their direction, these P 0 ^ 8 a 
.• dicating where the annual growths have commenced 
terminated. It is known by its narrow leaves spreading. . 
from the stem on all sides, and arranged in five indi 
rows. It is a large-growing species, often a foot higa. 
irregularly branched stems, which, after they have pn» , 
fruit-spikes, or have reached an equivalent age, become a 
pressed, rooting and throwing up another senes oi 
branches. The annual increase of the -stems is weun^ ^ 
npper part of each growth, and this is what gi ye f 
rupted appearance to the stems. The leaves, which dong 
for several years, are linear-lanceolate in 
