When I encountered this botanical tuning fork on my latest foray into the back woods, I was having either a "senior moment" or, worse, a bout of the dreaded "the cerebral hard drive doesn't work anymore." I knew that I'd seen the diminutive plant before. I was equally pretty sure that I'd identified it in the recent past and that it was a member of a group known as "Fern Allies." But try as I might, I couldn't put a name on the plant and, of course, the more I tried, the more it receded from my memory. Fortunately, I took this picture and, once home, I could pull out my ancient copy of the Peterson Field Guide to the Ferns and Their Related Families, and come up with an identification. It's definitely one of the Clubmosses, and because it apparently lacks the spore-bearing structures known as cones, I suspect it's a Shining Clubmoss. On my next forest foray, I'll bring Boughton Cobb's classic book with me and bring back a positive ID.