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and the mountains of Wales, the Highlands and Hebrides, 
found near the Holme, about five miles from Burnley, 
Lnncafhire, by Mr. Woodward ; on Yew-barrow, in Fur- 
nefs Fells, along with L. felago, by Mr. Jackfon ; from 
July to October. 
6. Lycopodium annotinum,or Welfli club-mofs: leaves 
fcattered, pointing five ways ; fomewhat ferrated ; ftem 
jointed at each year’s (hoot ; fpikes terminating, fmooth, 
upright. The branches contradfed at the laft year’s (boots, 
as in the female of the Polytrichum commune. Root 
branched ; trailing (lem very long ; upright (hoots from 
one to two and a half inches high, generally branched, 
fupporting the fpikes of fruftification. Found on the 
mountains of Caernarvonfhire, as about two hundred 
yards fouth-weft of Llyn y Cwn ; from June to Septem¬ 
ber. A branch of this, magnified, is (hown on the pre¬ 
ceding Plate, at fig. 8. and a leaf more highly magnified, 
at a. 
7. Lycopodium clavatum, common club-mofs, or wolf’s- 
claw : leaves fcattered, terminating in threads ; fpikes cy¬ 
lindrical, on fruit-dalks, in pairs. Stem creeping. Shoots 
from one to feveral feet in length, firmly attached to the 
earth by woody fibres. Branches expanding, diftant, 
trailing; the lower ones again fubdividing into forks. 
Leaves clofely tiled, flrap-fpear-fiiaped, pointed, and hook¬ 
ed, with long white hairs at the end. In the fummer, 
from the ends of the branches, the fruit-ftalks rife up, al- 
moft leaflefs, jointed, ftraight, rigid, from two to four 
inches high, bearing at the top one, two, or three, cy¬ 
lindrical flowering fpikes, clofely tiled with fcales or 
hulks pointed, hairy at the end, ragged at the edges. 
Each of thefe fcales inclofes a kidney-fhaped yellow cap- 
fule, exploding when ripe a yellow powder, which refem- 
bles fulphur, and burns with an explofion. Grows abun¬ 
dantly in dry places on 'mountains, heaths, and woods ; 
as on Hampftead and Hounflow heaths, near Eflier ; Mon- 
(hold-heath, near Norwich ; Cannock-heath, Staffordfliire, 
&c. flowers in July and Auguft. In Sweden they form 
it into mats or baffes, which lie at their doors to clean 
(hoes upon. It reftores ropy wine in a few days. The 
feeds are with difficulty made wet; and, if fcattered upon 
a bafon of water, you may dip your hand to the bottom 
of the bafon without wetting it. See a branch magnified 
at fig. 9. 
8. Lycopodium inundatam, or marfli club-mofs: leaves 
fcattered, very entire; fpikes terminating leafy. Stem 
creeping; fpikes folitary, fitting, fmooth. Branched ; the 
length of a finger or more; cylindrical. Leaves awl- 
(haped, pointed, fmooth, on the creeping (hoots, pointing 
one way, two lines long, and one broad at the bafe. Shoots 
creeping, pointing one way; thofe bearing fpikes an inch 
long, upright, cylindrical; fpikes not different from the 
(hoots except in being thicker. Capfules compreffed, 
roundifh, not kidney-lhaped. Found on tnoift heaths 
and turfy bogs, from June to September. See fig. 10. 
9. Lycopodium felaginoides, or prickly club-mofs : 
leaves fcattered, fringed, fpear-fhaped ; fpikes folitary, 
terminating, leafy. The capfules, thofe at the bafe of 
the lower leaves when viewed fideways apparently in 
threes, but really in fours, one pair above and the other 
pair below ; at length gaping, and difclofing as many large 
(olid feeds ; thofe at the bafe of the upper leaves yellower, 
of a loofer texture, entirely fimple, round, not contain¬ 
ing feeds, but pollen. Plant from one to three inches 
high. Inhabits mountainous heaths and paftures, in 
Scotland, the north of England,-and Wales; from June 
to September. 
10. Lycopodium complanatum ; leaves in two rows, 
united, fuperficial ones folitary; fpikes in pairs, each on 
,a diftinft peduncle. See the Plate, fig. 11. 
it. Lycopodium flabellatum, or fan club-mofs: leaves 
in two rows, ovate, oblique, fringed at the bafe, accom¬ 
panied by a double row of fmaller imbricated ones in front. 
Stem round, repeatedly branched, flattened above. The 
.figures of this fpecies, which is found in the Well Indies, 
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give but bn inadequate idea of its beauty. Its flat fan¬ 
like (hape, and the exquifitely neat arrangement of the in¬ 
numerable little fliining leaves, give it a peculiar and link¬ 
ing afpebl. The fpikes are fmall, and fparingly produced 
the root fibrous. The whole plant from one to two feet 
high. 
LYCOP'OLIS, [Gr. the City of the Wolves.] An an¬ 
cient city of Upper Egypt, in the Thebais, (ituated on 
the weftern fide of the Nile, at the foot of the Libj'an 
chain of mountains; and lo called, becaufe extraordinary 
worlhip was paid here to wolves, which, according to 
Diodorus Siculus, drove back the Ethiopians when they 
invaded Egypt, and purfued them to Elephantina, on the 
borders of Ethiopia. This city is fuppofed to have flood 
where the town of Siut now hands. See the article Egypt, 
vol. vi. p. 359.—Some authors mention another Lycopolis, 
in the Delta, or Lower Egypt, near the Mediterranean. 
LYCOP'SIS, f. [fo called by Pliny and Diofcot ides ; 
owes its derivation to Avxoj, a wolf, and o\|/i?, a face, or 
countenance, from the circumftance of the flowers being 
ringent, and having the appearance of a grinning mouth ; 
the herbage is alfo furniflied, fays Ambrolinus, with a 
fort of rigid hairinefs fimilar to the coat of a wolf.] 
Wild Bucloss ; in botany, a genus of the clafs pen- 
tandria, order monogynia, natural order of afperifolite, 
(borragineas, JuJf.) The generic characters are—Calyx; 
perianthium five-parted ; (egments oblong, acute, (Dread¬ 
ing, permanent. Corolla: one petalled, funnel-Vorm; 
tube cylindric, from curved bent; border half five-cleft, 
blunt; throat clofed with five convex prominent conver¬ 
ging fcales. Stamina: filaments five, very fmall, at the 
bending of the tube of the corolla; anthene fmall, co¬ 
vered. Piftillum : germs four; ftyle filiform, the length 
of the ftamens ; ftigma blunt, bifid. Pericarpium: none; 
calyx very large, inflated. Seeds: four, longifh. The 
effence of the genus conlifts in the curvature of the tube 
of the corolla. —EJjintial CharaEler. Corolla with the tube 
bent in. 
Species. 1. Lycopfis velicaria, or bladder-podded wild 
buglofs : leaves quite entire; Item proftrate ; fruiting ca¬ 
lyxes inflated, pendulous. Root annual. It refembles 
the next fpecies very much ; but the Item is proflrate, the 
root not creeping or abiding, the habit (mailer and lefs 
villofe, the corollas fmall and brown. Stem angular, hir- 
fute, folid, weak, a long fpan or more in length. Leaves 
an inch and a half or two inches long, half an inch wide, 
feflile, lanceolate, pubefcent, ivith a (hort foft hoary wool. 
Flowers axillary, from the top of the (lem and branches, 
in fwelling hirlute ftriated calyxes, on (hort peduncles; 
corolla very fmall, fcarcely appearing out of the calyx. 
As the flower withers, the calyx fwells very much into a 
fort of bladder. Native of the fouth of Europe, in dry 
hilly fituations ; it flowers in June and July. 
a. Lycopfis pulla, or dark-flowered wild buglofs : leaves 
quite entire; (tern upright; fruiting calyxes inflated, 
pendulous. Root creeping, perennial, (or rather biennial.) 
Stem upright, branched. Leaves and calyxes rough ; co¬ 
rolla fmall, dark biackifh purple. More villofe than the 
preceding. Gaertner coniiders the feeds of this natural 
order as nuts. They are four in number (except when 
fome are abortive) in every calyx. Thefe are middle- 
fized, cruftaceous, ovate-acuminate, oblique, incumbent 
on their umbilicus, obfoletely netted-wrinkled above, 
grooved on the fides with parallel (freaks, Araw-coloured, 
one-celled, valvelefs ; aperture of the umbilicus very wide, 
above the bafe of the nut, on the inner fide. Seeds (bli¬ 
tary, that is, one within each cell or cruft, ovate-acumi¬ 
nate, turgidly lenticular, dark or black-brown. Native 
of Germany and Auftria, in dry paftures, flowering in 
May and June; with us in June and July. 
3. Lycopfis jflgyptia, or Egyptian wild buglofs: leaves 
cjuite entire, rugged ; (terns afcending; fruiting calyxes 
inflated, pendulous. This plant in reality appears to be 
the Afperugo AJgyptiaca of Linnaeus’s Spec. PI. edit. 2. 
4. Lycoplis variegata, or variegated wild bugiols •; Jesves 
repan d, 
