lycopodium

• If the surface is raw use bland powders, such as oxid of zinc, lycopodium, starch, or smear the surface with vaseline, or with 1 ounce of vaseline intimately mixed with one-half dram each of opium and sugar of lead. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
• It is exclusively due to homoeopathic provings and practice, that the Lycopodium clavatum (Club Moss) takes an important position amongst the most curative vegetable remedies of the present day The word lycopodium means "wolf's claw," because of the claw-like ends to the trailing stems of this moss; and the word clavatum signifies that its inflorescence resembles a club. —  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
• A can of peaches without any peaches in it, holds a specimen of lycopodium, and a marvelous lantern that folds up into nothing by day and grows big at night, brings up the rear. —  The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss
• A portion of substance consisting, of a billion atoms is only barely visible with the highest power of a microscope; and a speck or granule, in order to be visible to the naked eye, like a grain of lycopodium-dust, must be a million times bigger still The human eye could see it then--that dainty little speck. —  Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete
• BLOOM: _ (Reflecting) _ Wheatenmeal with lycopodium and syllabax. —  Ulysses

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