LYCOPODIUM. 
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Linnaeus, used in Sweden to destroy vermin on cattle. It 
is also employed for dyeing, and to fix the colour of woollen 
cloths. 
Lycopodium annotinum, Linnaeus. 
Interrupted Club-moss. 
A very distinct plant, easily recognized by the inter¬ 
rupted leafing of its stems, the leaves being at intervals 
much diminished in size and less spreading in their direc¬ 
tion, indicating at these points where the annual growths 
have commenced and terminated. It is also known by its 
narrow leaves spreading out from the stem on all sides, 
and arranged in five indistinct rows. It is a large-growing 
species, often a foot high, with irregularly-branched stems, 
which, after they have produced fruit-spikes, or have 
reached an equivalent age, become depressed, rooting at 
intervals, and producing another series of upright branches. 
The annual increase of the stems is well marked by the 
closer-pressed and shorter leaves which occur at the upper 
part of each growth, and this is what gives the interrupted 
appearance to the stems. The leaves, which do not decay 
for several years, are linear-lanceolate in form, and have 
their margins minutely serrulate, and their apex drawn 
