LYCOPODIACEE. D.C. The club moss tribe of plants, comprising the genera Lycopodium and Isoetes. The green woods of Tenasserim are often carpeted with the club moss. Mr. Fortune met with a dwarf Lycopodium on the hills of Hong-Kong, which he carried to Messrs. Dent's garden. The old compradore was quite in raptures of delight, and coolies and servants gathered round the basket to admire this curious little plant. I had not, says Fortune, seen them evince so much gratification since I showed them the ' old man cactus,' Cereus senilis, which I took out from England, and presented to a Chinese nurseryman at Canton. On asking them why they prized the Lycopodium so much, they replied, in Canton English, ' Oh, he too much a handsome ; he grow only a leete and a leete every year ; and suppose he be one hundred year ould, he only so high,' holding up their hands an inch or two higher than the plant. This little plant is
really very pretty, and often naturallytakes the very form of a dwarf tree in miniature, which is doubt less the reason of its being such a favourite with the Chinese. L. aristatum, cernuum, Hookeri, imbricatum, phlegmaria, and Wildenowii occur in India. L. clavatum, of the British moors, grows at Chakoong in the Lachen Lachoong valley, Sikkim, and amongst mosses, the superb Himalayan Lyellia crispa, with the English Fumaria hygrometrica. Lyellia crispa also grows Chakoong in Sikki , in the Lachen Lachoong It is one of t e most remarkable mosses in the Himalaya mountains, ins, named after Charles Lyell of Kinnordy, the, father of the eminent geologist. The Lycopodium is an inflammable powder used in fireworks, obtained from a com mon moss-like plant. —.11sfason; Fortune's Wan derings; Hook. Him. Jour.; 'Waterston.