. 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. 4s LYCOPODIACEAE. Vol. 14. Lycopodium complanatum L. Trailing Christmas-green. Ground-pine. Fig. 113. Lycopodium complanatum L. Sp. PI. 1104. 1753. Horizontal stems prostrate, wide-creeping, flattened above, sparingly branched, with numerous erect irregu- larly forked aerial stems, the branches of these broadly flattened, somewhat glaucous, 2-3-forked, the
. 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. 4s LYCOPODIACEAE. Vol. 14. Lycopodium complanatum L. Trailing Christmas-green. Ground-pine. Fig. 113. Lycopodium complanatum L. Sp. PI. 1104. 1753. Horizontal stems prostrate, wide-creeping, flattened above, sparingly branched, with numerous erect irregu- larly forked aerial stems, the branches of these broadly flattened, somewhat glaucous, 2-3-forked, the divisions few and somewhat apart or, more commonly, numer- ous, closer, and fan-like, leafy throughout, the leaves 4-ranked, minute and (excepting those of the under row) imbricate and strongly decurrent, those of the upper row narrow and incurved, of the lateral rows broad, with spreading tips, and of the under row minute, deltoid-cuspidate; peduncles slender, l'-s' long, bract- eate, rarely simple, usually once or twice dichotomous, each branch terminating in a slender cylindric spike about 9" long; sporophyls broadly ovate, acuminate. In woods and thickets, Newfoundland to Alaska, south to North Carolina, Indiana. Minnesota and Jdaho. Also, in Europe and Asia. Ground-cedar, Festoon-pine, Crow- foot, Hogbed, Creeping Jennie. 15. Lycopodium tristachyum Pursh. Ground-pine. Fig. 114. L. tristachyum Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 653. 1814- Lycopodium chamaecyparissus A. Br. in Doll, Rhein. Fl. 36. 1843. Horizontal stems extensively creeping i'-4' be- low the surface of the ground, terete, sparingly branched, with numerous erect or assurgent repeatedly-forked aerial stems, the branches of these glaucous, narrow, somewhat flattened, with very numerous, crowded, erect divisions; ulti- mate divisions leafy throughout, the leaves 4-ranked, minute, imbricate, appressed, strongly decurrent, nearly equal and alike, those of the under row scarcely differing from the others, those of the later
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