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LYCOPODIUM DENDROIDEUM. 
Tree-like Club-moss. 
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CRYPTOGAMIA STACHYOPTERIDES, Willd.—Nat. Onv."LYCOPODINEZ, Brown, 
Gen. CHar —Capsule uniloculares, axillares, sessiles, alia bivalves, farina 
eer alize 2-8 valves, corpusculis 1-6 globosis,—Br. 
Lycopodium dendrodae a: Gaile erecto inferne caitlin, superne ra- 
moso, ramis alternis dichotomis patentibus, foliis lmeari-lanceolatis 
subsexfariis patulis, spicis solitariis terminalibus sessilibus. 
L. dendroideum, Micu. Fl. Bor. Am, v. ii. p.282-—Swartz, Syn. Fil. p. 178. 
—Wixp. Sp. Pl. v. 5. p.21.—Scuxunr, Fil. t. 164.—Arron, Hort. Kew. 
ed. 2. v. 5. p. 493.—Ditu. Muse. t. 67. 
L. obscurum, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1566. 
Root much creeping, and throwing out stiff, wiry fibres. Stem about 6 or 8 
inches high, at the base undivided, and with very few appressed leaves ; 
‘upward much branched, with the branches spreading, slightly and grace- 
fully curved back, opposite, and again frequently divided in a dichoto- 
mous manner. Leaves a beautiful bright green, shining, mostly arranged 
in 6 rows, linear-lanceolate, entire, spreading, but slightly incurved, de- 
current at the base. Fructification in single cylindrical sessile spikes 
from the extremities of the stem or branches, at first yellow-green, soon 
becoming yellow-brown, and formed of numerous imbricated, cordate, 
membranaceous scales, having within them a bivalved, reniform, coriaceo- 
membranaceous capsule, of one cell, and containing numerous minute, 
a yellow, sporules. 
This elegant species of Lycopodium seems to be very com- 
mon in North America, according to MicHavux, from Canada 
and New England to the mountainous parts of Carolina. It 
well deserves a place in every garden, being hardy, according 
to Hortus Kewensis; although, in our collection, it has been 
found to succeed best in a cool but airy part of the green- 
house. _ | 
We have abundant dried specimens from Mr GoLDIE, ga- 
thered at Montreal: our living ones were sent from the same 
country by Mr Kirrrn. 
WOT. 1. 
