. Class-book of botany : being outlines of the structure, physiology and classification of plants : with a flora of the United States and Canada. Botany; Botany; Botany. Order 158.—LYCOPODIACE^E. 811 killed by drought.) Fruit sessile on the under side of the branches, of 2 kinds ; the sterile smaller, opening all around, containing a thick body bearing 3 angular lobes (antheridia) above ; the fertile a thin pericarp bursting irregularly, containing many globular, stalked sporangia each with a few spores.—Minute, floating, resembling a Jungermannia. with filiform stems and lobed fronds. A. Caro
. Class-book of botany : being outlines of the structure, physiology and classification of plants : with a flora of the United States and Canada. Botany; Botany; Botany. Order 158.—LYCOPODIACE^E. 811 killed by drought.) Fruit sessile on the under side of the branches, of 2 kinds ; the sterile smaller, opening all around, containing a thick body bearing 3 angular lobes (antheridia) above ; the fertile a thin pericarp bursting irregularly, containing many globular, stalked sporangia each with a few spores.—Minute, floating, resembling a Jungermannia. with filiform stems and lobed fronds. A. Caroliniana Willd. Lvs. ovate-oblong, obtuse, imbricated, fleshy, floating. reddish beneath, scarcely more than J'' in length; sterile fruits in pairs or soli- tary, at the base of the fertile, many times smaller than it.—Lakes and manhea N. Y. to 111. and S. States. 4. SALVIN'IA natans L, inserted in previous editions on the au- thority of Pursh, has not been observed Order CLVIII. LYCOPODIACE^E. Club Mosses. Plants creeping or erect, branching, rarely J\j simple, abounding in ducts, with the leaves tfES^v i small, numerous, crowded, entire, lanceolate , % ..Jr| or subulate. 1-nerved. Fruits sessile, axillary "*5 or crowded into a spike, 2-valved, containing few rather large spores, or numerous minuto "^Pn ones appearing liko powder. 3 Genera 5, tpeota 200 ? Like the Equisetacca?, those plants appear to have been very abundant in the first ana of toe world, and to have attained a gigantic *ize, although at present but a few feet in length. Rr0p$rtitB unimportant Some are emetic. The powder contained in the sporangia is highly inflam- mable, and is used in the manufacture of fireworks. LYCOPCTDIUM, L. CludMoss. (Gr. XvKog, a wolf, ~ovc, a foot.) Spore cases all of one kind, 1-celled, veniform, open. J ing transversely, 2-valved; spores nu- merous, minute", sulphur-yellow.—Lvs. in 4, 8 or 16 ranks. -'• A. scale with its as sporange busting. 788, Spor
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