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By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-08-12. Revised by … Common clubmoss, lycopodium clavatum, the most widespread species in the genus Lycopodium of the clubmoss family Lycopodiaceae, is also known as Robin Hood’s hatband. Other names for the plant include: vegetable sulphur, goat’s claw, stag’s horn (clubmoss), wolf … pine etc. It grows mainly along the ground, with spores up to 1 m long. The name Robin Hood's hatband is recorded as early as 1828 in William Carr's dictionary of the dialect of … of Yorkshire, now North Yorkshire). Carr, William 1828a, vol. II, p. 85 s.n. Robin-ith-hedge. James Orchard Halliwell records the name in his 1847 Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words without indicating any … it was used. Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard 1847a, vol. II, p. 688 s.n. Robin. The name is …