. First forms of vegetation. Botany; Cryptogams. MOSSES. 8i which grows upright in little tufts at the edge of streamlets, or in marshy hollows among the hills where it is almost wholly concealed by the surrounding bog-mosses. In this country the lycopods are all alpine or sub-alpine ; one species (Fig. 5) ascending to the highest summits of the British mountains, where it grows in large rigid tufts amid the debris of rocks, and another. Fig. 4. Fig. s. Lycopodium Lycopodium CLAVATUM. Selago. Fig. 6. LvcofOpiuM (Fig. 6) trailing in long wreaths over the bare mossy shoulders of the Highland hil
. First forms of vegetation. Botany; Cryptogams. MOSSES. 8i which grows upright in little tufts at the edge of streamlets, or in marshy hollows among the hills where it is almost wholly concealed by the surrounding bog-mosses. In this country the lycopods are all alpine or sub-alpine ; one species (Fig. 5) ascending to the highest summits of the British mountains, where it grows in large rigid tufts amid the debris of rocks, and another. Fig. 4. Fig. s. Lycopodium Lycopodium CLAVATUM. Selago. Fig. 6. LvcofOpiuM (Fig. 6) trailing in long wreaths over the bare mossy shoulders of the Highland hills, sending up at short intervals from the bare, whitish, procumbent stems, palm-shaped tufts of very hard foliage, very like that of the savine. The loveliest of the British species is the L. selag- inoides, which looks like a moss as it creeps among mosses on sub-alpine banks. It is a slender and delicate species ; its fructifying spike being of a F. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Macmillan, Hugh, 1833-1903; Macmillan, Hugh, 1833-1903. Footnotes from the page of nature. London, Macmillan
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