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spikes projecting on all sides—have the effect of calling 
up the idea of groups of fauns and satyrs. Indeed, the 
long flexible stems are not badly adapted for various de¬ 
corative purposes. 
lycopodium inundatum, Linnaeus. 
Marsh Club-moss. (Plate XX. fig. 4.) 
This is a diminutive and common plant, very frequent 
on moist heaths and commons in the southern parts of 
England, less common northwards, comparatively rare 
in Wales and Scotland, and not found in Ireland. It 
prefers to grow on spots from which the turf has been 
pared. 
It is of prostrate habit, with simple stems, two or three 
inches long, growing close to the surface of the ground, to 
which they are firmly attached by a few short stout roots. 
They are thickly clothed with narrow linear-lanceolate 
leaves, which have an acute point, and are entire on the 
margin ; those on the barren horizontal stems being curved 
upwards. The plant extends itself at the point, throughout 
the growing season, the other end meanwhile undergoing a 
process of decay ; so that in winter, when the growth is 
arrested, the decay still going on, the living stem is much 
