CRYPTOGAMIA. MISCELLANEA. Pilularia. 979 
L. alpi'num. Leaves pointing four ways ; tiled, acute : stems upright, 
cloven : spikes sessile; cylindrical. 
E. Bot. 234 —DHL 58. 2— FI. Lapp. 11. G—Fl. Dan. 79—J. B. iii. 767. 1. 
Stem creeping, from a span to a foot long. Branches alternate, at an inch 
distant from each other, upright, forked, of the length of a little finger. 
Little branches fasciculated, from twenty to thirty together, exactly four- 
cornered, the angles blunt. Leaves thickish. Fruit-stalks terminating a 
branch here and there, two or three lines high, forked, scarcely distin¬ 
guishable from the branches, covered with smaller leaves, bearing as 
many spikes. Spikes egg-shaped, nearly smooth. Linn. All the branches 
divided, and frequently subdivided into forks. Dill. Upright shoots an 
inch and a half^to three inches long; thinner than the spikes which they 
support. 
(Savin-leaved Club-moss. E.) Mountainous heaths in Yorkshire, Cum¬ 
berland, and the mountains of Wales, the Highlands and Hebrides. 
Near the top of Ingleborough, Yorkshire. Curtis. Near the Holme, 
about five miles from Burnley, Lancashire. Mr. Woodward. On Yew 
barrow, in Furness Fells, with L . Selago. Mr. Jackson. (Aghla and 
Barnesmore mountains, Donegal. Mr. Murphy. E.) P. July—Oct.* 
PILULA'RIA.f Calyx common, woolly, globular, four-celled ; 
opening in four directions : Anthers many; sessile : Pis¬ 
tils many : Style none. 
P. GLOBULIF f ERA. 
(Hook. FI. Lond. 83— E. Bot. 521. E.)— Dill. 79— FI. Dan. 223— Bull. 375 
— Bolt. 40— Pet. 9. S—Paill. 15. 6—Pluck. 48. 1— H. Ox. xv. 7. 49. 
Stem slender, trailing, striking root at the joints, and sending out delicate 
narrow or nearly cylindrical leaves, two or three inches long, generally 
three from a joint. Fructifications globular, like pepper-corns, on very 
short pedicles at the base of the leaves. The curious fructification of this 
singular plant is beautifully illustrated iri*FI. Lond. E.) 
Pillwort. Pepper-grass. (Welsh : Pelanllys gronynawg. In boggy 
places, and grounds that have been overflowed, especially in a sandy soil. 
Near Streatham Wells, Petersfield. Plukenet. On Hounslow Heath. 
Doody. Hainford and Stratton Heaths, Norfolk. Mr. Crowe. St. 
Faith’s Newton Bogs. Mr. Pitchford. (Various bogs in Angus and 
Perthshires. Mr. Brown. Childwall Common, near Liverpool. Dr. Bos- 
tock. Between Corfe-Mullein and Poole, about the eleventh mile-stone ; 
and about Sandford Bridge, near Wareham. Pulteney. At Prestwick 
Carr, Northumberland; and near Wolsington. Mr. Winch. In Angle¬ 
sey. Welsh. Bot. Between Gorse Moor and Roche, Cornwall. Rev. J. 
Pike Jones. Braid Hill marshes, and Pentland Hills. Mr. Arnott. Loch 
of Clunie. Rev. Mr. M f Ritchie. Loch Lomond. Mr. Murray. Hook. Scot. 
Covering the shore of Coleshill Pool, Warwickshire, to a great extent. 
Mr. Purton, in Mid. FI. E. P. June—Sept.]; 
* (A very handsome species ; said to be bitter, and to act as an emetic. E.) 
t (From pilula y a small ball or pill ; which the fructification of this plant remarkably 
resembles. E.) 
f (This interesting little aquatic is not to ba detected without deliberate inspection ; 
being often found under water, and intermixed with plants whose leaves conceal or nearly 
resemble its own. E.) 
