. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 12. Lycopodium clavatum L, Running-pine. Club-moss. Fig. in. Lycopodium clavatum L. Sp. PI. 1101. 1753. Main stems prostrate, extensively creeping (3°-9°) along the ground, branching horizontally, with numer-- ous very leafy ascending pinnately branched aerial stems; leaves crowded, many-ranked, linear, bristle- tipped, entire or denticulate, those of the main
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 12. Lycopodium clavatum L, Running-pine. Club-moss. Fig. in. Lycopodium clavatum L. Sp. PI. 1101. 1753. Main stems prostrate, extensively creeping (3°-9°) along the ground, branching horizontally, with numer-- ous very leafy ascending pinnately branched aerial stems; leaves crowded, many-ranked, linear, bristle- tipped, entire or denticulate, those of the main stems strongly denticulate; peduncles stout, \Y long, channeled, with slender whorled or scattered denticu- late bristle-tipped bracts, simple or several times forked near the summit; spikes linear-cylindric, the sporophyls deltoid-ovate, acuminate, or bristle-tipped, the margins scarious, erose. In woods, Labrador to Alaska, south to North Caro- lina, Michigan and Washington. Also in Europe, Asia and tropical America. The spores of this species, and those of L. complanatum, furnish the inflammable power known as Lycopodium powder or vegetable sulphur, used in stage effects. Called also running-moss. Fox- tail. Buck's-horn. Buck's-grass. Staghorn-moss. Snake- moss. Wolf's-claws. Ground-pine. Toad's-tail. Lamb's- tails. Creeping-bur. Creeping Jennie. Coral-evergreen. 13. Lycopodium carolinianum L. Club-moss. Fig, 112. Carolina Lycopodium carolinianum L. Sp. PI. 1104. 1753. Stems short, i'-6' long, prostrate, pinnately branch- ing, rooting below; leaves strongly dimorphic, those of the sides large, ovate-lanceolate, falcate, recurved, asym- metrical, acute, those of the upper side smaller, subu- late from a broad base; peduncles 2'SY long, slender, with a few whorled or scattered subulate bracts; spikes f'-2' long, slender; sporophyls deltoid, acuminate, entire or somewhat erose. In moist pine barrens, New Jersey to Florida and Lou- isiana near the Please
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