club moss

Historical Examples of club moss

• His "feather" is the Traveller's Joy, his "hatband" the club-moss.

  The Dukeries

  R. Murray Gilchrist

• The girl come to me slowly, stooped and tore from the ground a strand of club-moss.

  The Little Red Foot

  Robert W. Chambers

• The seeds of the common Club-moss (Lycopodium clavatum) are used at the theatres to imitate lightning.

  Botany for Ladies

  Jane Loudon

• The forests of the coal period, with their giant reeds and club-moss trees, must have made a strange picture.

  Extinct Monsters

  H. N. Hutchinson

• But these are the very matters with which Nature supplied the club-moss which made the coal.

  The Story of the Earth and Man

  J. W. Dawson