club moss

noun

club moss

any mosslike tracheophyte plant of the phylum Lycopodophyta , having erect or creeping stems covered with tiny overlapping leaves

First recorded in 1590–1600

But coal is as much an essential condition of this growth and development as carbonic acid is for that of a club-moss.

There are many kinds of ground evergreens, most of them members of the Lycopodiaceæ, or club-moss family.

The bracken and the club-moss of our British moors grow associated with tree-ferns.

The hands may be preserved dry for delicate work by rubbing a little club moss (lycopodium), in fine powder, over them.

It is said that in the case of the Common Club Moss the prothalli do not appear until the end of the sixth year.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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